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Small earthquake rattles South Coast

A small earthquake rattled parts of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties Tuesday morning.
USGS
A small earthquake rattled parts of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties Tuesday morning.

A magnitude 3.0 quake occurred at 10:51 a.m. Tuesday. There are no reports of damage.

A small earthquake rattled parts of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties on Tuesday morning.

The magnitude 3.0 quake occurred at 10:51 a.m. The epicenter was about four miles southeast of Carpinteria. There are no reports of damage.

Some people in the Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito, and Santa Barbara areas reported feeling the quake. A handful of people noticed it in Ventura, Oxnard, and even as far away as Thousand Oaks.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.