MALIBU, Calif. () — A magnitude 3.9 earthquake shook the Malibu area Sunday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The quake struck at 8:17 p.m. and was centered about 8 miles northeast of Westlake Village and 9 miles north of Thousand Oaks, the USGS said. It marked the third consecutive Sunday that an earthquake struck Los Angeles County.
No injuries or structural damage were immediately reported.
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7 viewers reported feeling the earthquake in Thousand Oaks, Montebello, Carson and Camarillo.
“I felt it in Long Beach,” Tonia Franklin wrote on Facebook. “One wall shook for a few seconds. I pray almost every day that we don’t have a catastrophic earthquake, and I’ve been praying this way since the big Northridge earthquake in 1994.”
On the USGS website, as of 9 p.m., more than 2,800 people had reported feeling the quake in areas stretching from Santa Barbara to Mission Viejo.
The temblor, whose depth was measured at 9 miles, was initially measured at magnitude of 4.0 before being downgraded.
Sunday night’s quake follows a 3.3-magnitude quake that struck near Malibu on March 10, and a 4.1-magnitude quake in Westlake Village on March 9.
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