Southern California Earthquakes in the Past Week

Nick Scheckel , Seismological Laboratory
Lucy Jones, U. S. Geological Survey
California Institute of Technology

January 3, 2002


The time period covered is 4 pm on Thursday, December 27 (PST) through 4 pm on Thursday, January 3 (PST). During this period we dectected and analysed 230 earthquakes. Click here to see a map.

The table below lists the quakes during the past week that were M2.0 or larger in the central part of the coverage area. Times are local times; if you want Greenwich Mean Time, add 7 hrs to the Pacific Daylight Time or 8 hrs to the Pacific Standard Time listed.

          Mag. PST Date   PST Time  Lat.       Long.    Depth  Descriptive location
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 9740657  2.5  2001/12/27 17:50:19 34 58.6 N 116 56.2 W  3.8   13 km ( 8 mi) NE   of Barstow, CA  
 9740733  2.6  2001/12/28 05:28:45 33 28.0 N 116 30.9 W 12.4   18 km (11 mi) SE   of Anza, CA  
 9740761  2.1  2001/12/28 07:23:28 35  2.5 N 118 19.1 W  8.0   14 km ( 8 mi) W    of Mojave, CA  
 9740769  2.1  2001/12/28 07:42:23 34 51.5 N 116 24.4 W  3.6   55 km (34 mi) SW   of Baker, CA  
 9740977  3.1  2001/12/28 23:40:02 32  4.7 N 115  0.1 W  7.0   78 km (48 mi) SSW  of Yuma, AZ  
 9741009  2.6  2001/12/29 05:10:33 32 23.5 N 115  6.3 W  7.0   48 km (30 mi) SE   of Calexico, CA  
 9741045  2.5  2001/12/29 06:49:44 32 23.5 N 115  6.8 W  7.0   47 km (29 mi) SE   of Calexico, CA  
 9741189  2.3  2001/12/29 19:43:54 32 42.7 N 115 30.1 W 19.9    5 km ( 3 mi) N    of Calexico, CA  
 9741205  2.0  2001/12/29 23:00:13 34 41.7 N 116 17.7 W  3.3   62 km (39 mi) N    of Joshua Tree, CA  
 9741505  2.4  2001/12/30 12:04:58 32 10.4 N 117 19.9 W  6.0   50 km (31 mi) SSW  of San Ysidro, CA  
 9741929  2.3  2001/12/31 06:51:53 35  0.5 N 119  9.9 W 16.9   20 km (13 mi) W    of Wheeler Ridge, CA  
 9742137  2.1  2002/01/01 12:15:29 33 15.9 N 116  8.3 W  9.9   14 km ( 8 mi) N    of Ocotillo Wells, CA  
 9742149  3.0  2002/01/01 13:23:57 33 15.9 N 116  8.5 W  5.5   14 km ( 8 mi) N    of Ocotillo Wells, CA  
 9742153  2.4  2002/01/01 13:31:04 33 15.9 N 116  8.4 W  4.6   14 km ( 8 mi) N    of Ocotillo Wells, CA  
 9742157  2.0  2002/01/01 13:41:40 33 17.3 N 116  9.0 W  7.0   16 km (10 mi) N    of Ocotillo Wells, CA  
 9742161  2.0  2002/01/01 14:29:41 33 16.0 N 116  8.7 W  3.4   14 km ( 9 mi) N    of Ocotillo Wells, CA  
 9742277  4.2  2002/01/02 04:11:28 33 22.8 N 116 26.1 W 12.6   15 km ( 9 mi) NNW  of Borrego Springs, CA; FELT
 9743077  2.5  2002/01/02 09:48:30 33 16.2 N 116  8.4 W  9.0   14 km ( 9 mi) N    of Ocotillo Wells, CA  
 9743085  2.1  2002/01/02 10:13:19 33 15.1 N 116  7.6 W  6.0   12 km ( 7 mi) N    of Ocotillo Wells, CA  
 9743121  2.2  2002/01/02 11:55:46 33 59.2 N 117  0.2 W 14.6    6 km ( 4 mi) SSE  of Yucaipa, CA  
 9743505  2.6  2002/01/03 08:27:13 35 15.6 N 118 33.8 W  7.7   18 km (11 mi) NW   of Tehachapi, CA  
 9743561  2.3  2002/01/03 09:54:25 34 29.3 N 116 14.5 W  4.7   40 km (25 mi) N    of Joshua Tree, CA  
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