{"id":490354,"date":"2026-10-09T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490354\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T12:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:52:48","slug":"3-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-long-beach-overnight-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490354\/","title":{"rendered":"3.2-magnitude earthquake strikes near Long Beach overnight Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 3.2-magnitude earthquake <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/05\/us-news\/3-5-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-southern-california\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struck the Long Beach area<\/a> after midnight Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The quake hit around 12:45 a.m. about 1 mile southwest of the Signal Hill area, according to the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41250875\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/3-2-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-144362731.jpg\" alt=\"Map of Southern California showing the epicenter of the Long Beach earthquake.\" class=\"wp-image-41250875\"\/>A 3.2-magnitude earthquake rattled the Long Beach area, according to the USGS. USGS<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:2.28571429;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41250859\" width=\"1024\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/long-beach-california-golden-sunset-144362466.jpg\" alt=\"Golden sunset over the harbor, marina, and skyline of Long Beach, California.\" class=\"wp-image-41250859\"\/>The quake hit about 1 miles southwest of Long Beach (pictured). Larry Gibson \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake occurred about 7.64 miles underground. There no immediate reports of damages or injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The quake struck days after a 3.5-magnitude tremor shook part shaken parts of Southern California Monday, striking in the Pacific Ocean off the Orange County coast and felt as far as San Diego.\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck the Long Beach area after midnight Friday. The quake hit around 12:45 a.m. about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,3934,131,133,132,4182,3586],"class_list":["post-490354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-earthquakes","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-metro","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490354","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=490354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}