The quake, which struck at 7:39 p.m. PDT, registered 4.5 on the Richter scale, according to a preliminary reading from the state Office of Emergency Services.
Voyager 2 encountered Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986 and will fly about 3,000 miles above Neptune's north pole cloudtops at 9 p.m. PDT Aug. 24.
The plane took off from Dyess at 6:38 a.m. PDT on a training mission.
The $413 million spacecraft, centerpiece of a $744 million mission, was scheduled to zoom over Venus' north pole and then drop into orbit after it fires its braking rocket at 9:32 a.m. PDT Friday.
Yesterday, at 12:10 PDT, the rocket worked just as its youthful inventors hoped it would.
Galileo's tiny rocket thrusters, which are small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, started firing at 11:10 a.m. PDT and will fire roughly 3,000 times by the time the maneuver ends Saturday afternoon, laboratory spokesman Jim Wilson said.
The plane had been scheduled to fly non-stop and to land at 11:33 a.m. PDT in San Francisco, Mack said.
When the maneuver started at 11:10 a.m. PDT Friday, Galileo was 96 million miles from Earth, but had traveled a looping path of 365 million miles since it was launched from space shuttle Atlantis last Oct. 18, Wilson said.
And in Los Angeles, the moon rises at 7:35 p.m. PDT, when the eclipse is already in totality.
Voyager 2 will make its closest approach to Neptune at 8:59 p.m. PDT on Thursday when it flies about 3,000 miles over the cloudtops of the solar system's fourth-largest planet.
The flare began at 9:44 a.m. PDT Friday and lasted nearly two hours, Balch said.
Atlantis touched down at 12:43 p.m. PDT on a concrete runway at Rogers Dry Lake after a fiery, hour-long plunge from orbit 184 miles above Earth.
It struck about 2:20 p.m. PDT, was centered about five miles east-southeast of Ontario, and measured 3.4 on the Richter scale, said Hall Daily, a spokesman for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
I knew the shuttle was here." The Discovery glided at supersonic speeds over Ojai at about 9:30 a.m. PDT before safely landing seven minutes later on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert to the cheers of more than 400,000 spectators.
Mr. Lew and his group said the agreement will expire at 11:59 p.m. PDT today.
The Navy helicopter that plunged into the sea around 11:30 a.m. PDT had taken off from the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu and was circling in case other aircraft taking part in a military exercise experienced problems, said Marine Capt.
A smaller flare at 9:01 a.m. PDT lasted 41 minutes.
A West Coast Drexel broker who asked not to be identified said Drexel Chairman Frederick Joseph and Drexel attorneys addressed employees on a one-hour phone hookup from New York at 3 p.m. PDT, about 90 minutes after the case was announced.
Meese telephoned Reagan at 4:24 a.m. PDT, Speakes said.