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 = Thu Jan 8 18:00:25 PST 2009

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

MAP 3.2  2009/01/06 22:37:29 38.455N 119.317W  0.1   23 km (15 mi) NNW of Bridgeport, CA
MAP 3.7  2009/01/04 15:36:02 41.553N 115.876W  2.4    9 km ( 6 mi) NNW of North Fork, NV
MAP 4.2  2009/01/04 09:27:10 38.783N 122.772W  4.3    3 km ( 2 mi) ESE of The Geysers, CA
MAP 3.0  2009/01/04 08:05:37 38.729N 119.602W 10.5   18 km (11 mi) ENE of Markleeville, CA
MAP 3.6  2009/01/04 07:29:27 41.333N 114.842W  8.6   13 km ( 8 mi) SW  of Wilkins, NV