A magnitude 3.2 earthquake struck off the coast of Malibu on Saturday afternoon, the latest temblor this month to rumble along the Southern California coast.
Saturday’s earthquake was the seventh of magnitude 3 or greater since Sept. 12, when a magnitude 4.7 earthquake just north of Malibu was widely felt across Southern California, powerful enough that it briefly unsettled news anchors at KTTV-TV and KABC-TV who were broadcasting live.
But in contrast to most of the Malibu-area quakes that followed Sept. 12, which occurred under land, Saturday’s quake was offshore of Malibu, about 6 miles southwest of Point Dume…