Southern California Earthquakes in the Past Week

Kate Hutton , Seismological Laboratory
Lucy Jones, U. S. Geological Survey
California Institute of Technology

June 5, 1998


The time period covered is 5 pm on Thursday, May 28 through 5 pm on Thursday, June 4. During this period, we detected and analysed 193 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. In the perepheral areas, quakes larger than M2.5 are listed. 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.

Date  Time(PDT) Lat.     Long.     Mag. Descriptive location
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 5/28  5:31 pm  35 45.6  118 24.7  2.3  9 mi. NNE of town of Lake Isabella, CA
 5/28  8:19 pm  34 19.6  116 27.8  2.4  14 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA
 5/29  5:08 am  34 21.7  118 18.1  2.1  7 mi. N of Sunland, CA
 5/29  8:28 am  35 33.3  118 24.7  2.3  6 mi. SSE of town of Lake Isabella, CA
 5/29  8:29 am  34 33.7  119 10.4  2.4  8 mi. NNE of Ojai, CA
 5/29 11:46 am  32  7.4  115 45.1  2.5  40 mi. SSW of Calexico, CA
 5/29  9:43 pm  33 46.1  116  8.1  2.1  5 mi. NE of Indio, CA
 5/29 10:26 pm  34 20.8  116 28.1  2.4  15 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA
 5/29 10:39 pm  34 21.0  116 28.1  2.5  16 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA
 5/29 10:39 pm  34  7.5  116 54.2  2.4  4 mi. WNW of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA
 5/30  2:36 am  34 23.1  116 27.8  2.2  18 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA
 5/30  9:39 am  35 37.4  118 25.8  2.2  2 mi. ESE of town of Lake Isabella, CA
 5/31  9:48 am  34 16.5  118 22.9  2.1  1 mi. W of Lake View Terrace, CA
 6/1   1:37 am  33 59.3  117  6.4  2.0  5 mi. SW of Yucaipa, CA
 6/1  11:33 am  36  6.6  117 49.9  2.0  7 mi. NE of Coso Junction, CA
 6/1   6:36 pm  36  5.7  117 51.9  2.2  5 mi. NE of Coso Junction, CA
 6/1   9:20 pm  34 20.9  116 28.1  2.1  15 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA
 6/1  11:14 pm  33 23.6  116 22.4  2.1  9 mi. N of Borrego Springs, CA
 6/2   3:44 pm  33 40.0  117  0.8  2.3  6 mi. SSW of Hemet, CA
 6/2   8:03 pm  34 21.7  116 28.3  2.1  16 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA
 6/2  10:22 pm  34  7.4  118 28.9  3.0  2 mi. SSE of Encino, CA; FELT
 6/3   6:37 am  33 40.4  118  3.9  2.1  1 mi. SW of Bolsa Chica Beach, CA
 6/3   2:35 pm  35 44.5  117 33.1  2.3  10 mi. NE of Ridgecrest, CA
 6/3  11:07 pm  33 26.5  116 51.5  3.7  6 mi. N of Palomar Observatory, CA
                                        FELT
 6/4  12:22 am  33  8.6  115 38.0  2.0  1 mi. S of Obsidian Butte, CA
 6/4   3:00 am  34 10.5  116 27.0  2.4  3 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA