A magnitude 4.2 earthquake and multiple aftershocks struck near Malibu in the Los Angeles area early Wednesday morning.
, the initial 4.2-magnitude quake occurred just offshore about 10 miles south of Malibu Beach at 2 a.m. PST. The depth of the earthquake was about 9.2 miles.
“My bed shook — hard enough to make me leap out of it, actually, and run over to the living room,” said FOX Weather Correspondent Max Gorden, who is based in Ventura. “Whenever an earthquake hits in the middle of the night a part of you wonders if it was just a dream, so I hopped on Twitter and sure enough a lot of local LA journalists had tweeted they had felt it…and it wasn’t just my imagination.
Some three minutes after the first quake, a magnitude 3.5 aftershock was reported in nearly the same spot at a depth of about 8 miles. That was followed by 2.8-magnitude and 2.6-magnitude aftershocks at 2:22 a.m. and 2:38 a.m. PST, respectively.
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