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 = Wed Aug 12 23:00:01 PDT 2009

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

MAP 3.5  2009/08/12 16:49:04 33.098N 116.215W 10.0    9 km ( 6 mi) WSW of Ocotillo Wells, CA
MAP 4.9  2009/08/07 03:49:34 40.310N 124.637W 16.9   30 km (19 mi) W   of Petrolia, CA
MAP 3.3  2009/08/07 01:53:30 34.141N 117.488W  3.9    6 km ( 3 mi) NNW of Fontana, CA