{"id":486168,"date":"2026-10-05T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486168\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:56:10","slug":"magnitude-3-7-earthquake-reported-off-orange-county-coast-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/486168\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude-3.7 earthquake reported off Orange County coast \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude-3.7 earthquake was reported Monday afternoon off the Southern California coast.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci41343767\/dyfi\/responses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earthquake<\/a> at 1:22 p.m. was about 18 miles southwest of Dana Point. Light shaking was reported in Laguna Niguel, San Diego, San Clemente, Lynwood, El Cajon and other locations.<\/p>\n<p>The quake at a fairly shallow depth of about 5 miles was followed by a magnitude-2.8 aftershock.<\/p>\n<p>Refresh page for updates. <\/p>\n<p>Did you feel it?<\/p>\n<p>Whether you feel shaking from an earthquake largely depends on three major factors &#8212; magnitude, distance and local soil conditions. Magnitude refers to the strength of the quake. The closer your location to the epicenter, the more likely you&#8217;ll feel the effects of seismic waves that become less intense as they move out from the fault. Generally, the looser the soil under your location, the greater the amplification.<\/p>\n<p>Aftershocks<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/earthquakes\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/earthquakes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earthquakes<\/a> are followed by a larger earthquake, in which case the first quake would then be called a foreshock. For example, the magnitude-9.1 Japan earthquake and tsunami in 2011 was preceded by a magnitude-7.3 foreshock two days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Aftershocks decrease over time, but can continue for days, weeks, months and years.<\/p>\n<p>Photos: What to Keep in Your Disaster Emergency Kit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude-3.7 earthquake was reported Monday afternoon off the Southern California coast. The earthquake at 1:22 p.m. was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3934,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-486168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-earthquakes","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486168","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=486168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}