{"id":708755,"date":"2010-04-04T20:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fa57ca2970c"},"modified":"2010-04-04T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T00:55:46","slug":"magnitude-3-earthquake-hits-malibu-one-of-several-california-temblors-after-7-2-shaker-near-mexicali-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/708755","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 3 earthquake hits Malibu, one of several California temblors after 7.2 shaker near Mexicali [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/recenteqsus\/Quakes\/ci14607828.php\">magnitude 3 earthquake struck <\/a>the Santa Monica Bay this afternoon, a short time after a magnitude 7.2 temblor struck Mexicali. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Updated, 5:36 p.m.:<\/strong> Caltech seismologists upgraded the Santa Monica quake to magnitude 4.1 and said it&#8217;s connected to the Mexicali temblor.<strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bay quake occurred about six miles south of Malibu around 4:10 p.m. There were no reports of damage or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Mexicali quake, there have been other temblors around California, including several in Northern California and one in Julian, a backcountry town in San Diego County. There have also been aftershocks of the Mexicali quake centered in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The part of Baja California struck today has experienced<br \/>\nregular seismic activity &#8212; mostly small quakes but also some strong<br \/>\nones. Guadalupe Victoria has recorded numerous minor quakes in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Caltech seismologists were still studying the details of the<br \/>\ntemblor, trying to connect it to a specific fault. They said it&#8217;s<br \/>\npossible that the quake was so large that it ruptured all the way into<br \/>\nCalifornia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Correction:<\/strong> An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that the Malibu quake occurred two hours after the Mexicali quake.<strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Instrumental Intensity Image\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/shakemap\/sc\/shake\/14607828\/download\/intensity.jpg?w=780\" usemap=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/#Instrumental_Intensity_imap\"><\/img><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad <\/p>\n<p>Map: USGS Quake intensity analysis.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 3 earthquake struck the Santa Monica Bay this afternoon, a short time after a magnitude 7.2 temblor struck Mexicali. [Updated, 5:36 p.m.: Caltech seismologists upgraded the Santa Monica quake to magnitude 4.1 and said it&#8217;s connected to the Mexicali temblor.] The bay quake occurred about six miles south of Malibu around 4:10 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ynx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}