{"id":490426,"date":"2026-10-09T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490426\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:30:16","slug":"oct-9-earthquake-of-3-2-magnitude-registered-close-to-signal-hill-in-los-angeles-county-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490426\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 9: Earthquake of 3.2 magnitude registered close to Signal Hill in Los Angeles County \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIF. \u2014 A preliminary 3.2 magnitude quake shook near Signal Hill, about 1.7 miles north-northeast of Long Beach, on Friday around midnight, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci41345415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the U.S. Geological Survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tremor struck at 12:44 a.m., with its epicenter about 1 mile southwest of Signal Hill and a depth of 8 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Did you feel it? <\/p>\n<p>If you felt the earthquake, you can submit a report via the USGS <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/ci41345415\/tellus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Felt Report form<\/a>. 952 people have submitted responses through the agency\u2019s online form, reporting they experienced weak shaking. Residents reported feeling the quake in a number of cities, including Santa Monica, El Segundo, Culver City, Whittier and Fullerton according to the USGS DYFI report.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791554972791_ci41345415_ciim_geo.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Tremors last week <\/p>\n<p>Four earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or above have been reported in the region over the last week. The largest, measuring 3.5, jolted close to Dana Point on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>The four largest earthquakes nearby in the last week:<\/p>\n<p>3.5, southwest of Dana Point on Oct. 5\u2022 2.8, southwest of Dana Point on Oct. 5\u2022 2.7, west-northwest of Fontana on Oct. 8\u2022 2.5, southwest of Dana Point on Oct. 5<\/p>\n<p>Source: The U.S. Geological Survey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIF. \u2014 A preliminary 3.2 magnitude quake shook near Signal Hill, about 1.7 miles north-northeast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[3934,131,133,132,334],"class_list":["post-490426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-earthquakes","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-weather-advisory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490426","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=490426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}