Local News in Brief : Mild Quake Strikes Off Malibu Coastline
A mild earthquake with a magnitude of 3.1 struck near the Malibu coastline Monday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.
Robert Finn, a spokesman for the Caltech Seismology Laboratory in Pasadena, said the 11:11 a.m. quake was centered in the ocean about 6 miles from Malibu, was not an aftershock of the 5.0 shaker that hit early Saturday in Pasadena, which resulted in 32 injuries and was felt as far away as Palm Springs and San Diego.
Scientists said the larger quake was centered at the junction of two faults. The 5.0 tremor was a so-called “strike-slip” quake in which two plates grind against each other to move the ground horizontally, Caltech seismologist Kate Hutton said.
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