A magnitude 2.6 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning at 9:08 a.m. in the waters off Malibu, about four miles from the city, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.<\/p>\n
The earthquake occurred nine miles from Westlake Village, 10 miles from Thousand Oaks, 12 miles from Agoura Hills and 14 miles from Calabasas.<\/p>\n
In the last 10 days, there have been three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby.<\/p>\n
An average of 59 earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.0 to 3.0 occur each year in the Greater Los Angeles area, according to a recent three-year data sample.<\/p>\n
The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.5 miles. Did you feel this earthquake? Consider reporting what you felt<\/a> to the USGS.<\/p>\n Are you ready for when the Big One hits? Get ready for the next big earthquake by signing up for our Unshaken newsletter<\/a>, which breaks down emergency preparedness into bite-sized steps over six weeks. Learn more about earthquake kits, which apps you need, Lucy Jones\u2019 most important advice and more at latimes.com\/Unshaken<\/a>.<\/p>\n This story was automatically generated by Quakebot, a computer application that monitors the latest earthquakes detected by the USGS. A Times editor reviewed the post before it was published. If you\u2019re interested in learning more about the system, visit our list of frequently asked questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 2.6 earthquake was reported Wednesday morning at 9:08 a.m. in the waters off Malibu, about four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19024,3047,2949,48,52,51,36270,47,50,49,36272,4465,9282,2663,58139,3044,31939,36268,8953,646,213],"class_list":["post-107981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-agoura-hills","tag-com","tag-earthquake","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-latime","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-lucy-jones","tag-magnitude","tag-malibu","tag-mile","tag-occur","tag-story","tag-thousand-oaks","tag-unshaken-newsletter","tag-usgs","tag-water","tag-westlake-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}