Big Earthquakes in California-Nevada Map Area

Magnitude 3 and greater earthquakes catalogued in the last week (168 hours) for the California-Nevada map area. Some early events may be obscured by more recent ones on the maps. The top three magnitude categories above magnitude 3 (for example 3,4,5 or 4,5,6 or 5,6,7) are in red in the list below. The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Times are local (PST or PDT). Click on the word "MAP" to see a map displaying the earthquake. Click on an event's date to get additional text information.

Update time = Tue Sep 16 3:21:19 PDT 2008

    MAG    DATE    LOCAL-TIME  LAT     LON    DEPTH    LOCATION
           y/m/d     h:m:s     deg     deg     km
   

MAP 3.2  2008/09/14 18:34:46 38.787N 122.768W  1.8    4 km ( 2 mi) ESE of The Geysers, CA
MAP 3.3  2008/09/13 13:27:52 38.793N 122.763W  3.0    4 km ( 2 mi) E   of The Geysers, CA
MAP 3.2  2008/09/13 01:46:52 33.032N 118.929W  7.0   30 km (19 mi) W   of San Clemente Is., CA (NW tip)
MAP 3.3  2008/09/12 23:42:51 36.661N 121.288W  8.0   15 km ( 9 mi) S   of Tres Pinos, CA
MAP 3.0  2008/09/12 23:06:24 36.655N 121.287W  7.7   15 km ( 9 mi) S   of Tres Pinos, CA
MAP 3.6  2008/09/12 06:04:04 39.399N 123.269W  2.5    7 km ( 4 mi) E   of Willits, CA
MAP 3.4  2008/09/11 07:52:26 32.696N 116.066W 10.0    8 km ( 5 mi) SW  of Ocotillo, CA
MAP 3.0  2008/09/10 05:46:30 33.681N 116.795W 18.7   10 km ( 6 mi) SW  of Idyllwild, CA
MAP 3.0  2008/09/09 05:40:54 38.632N 122.844W  6.1    2 km ( 2 mi) NE  of Healdsburg, CA