Local News in Brief : 3.8 Quake Rocks Westside, Valley
A mild earthquake centered in the Pacific Ocean off Malibu rattled windows and rocked some homes from Manhattan Beach to the San Fernando Valley at 8:51 p.m. Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
Seismologists at Caltech said the magnitude 3.8 temblor was centered 5 miles southwest of Point Dume, 15 miles west of the 5.0 quake that hit the area Jan. 18.
Karen Nosker, a waitress at Alice’s Restaurant on the Malibu Pier said the quake “shook the whole front part of the restaurant. All the windows were rattling and everybody stopped talking.”
Ken Giroudard, a bartender at Splash Restaurant in Malibu, said he was about to “jump over the bar,” but the shaking stopped “just as I got one foot over. It only rocked for about two seconds.”
County firefighters said about five calls came in from the Malibu area, with residents reporting that their houses were shaking.
Between six and 12 aftershocks were recorded in the first hour after the quake, none measuring above 3.0.
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