Southern California Earthquakes in the Past Week

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

July 31, 1998


The time period covered is 5 pm on Thursday, July 23 through 5 pm on Thursday, July 30, local time. During this period, we detected and analysed 165 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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 7/23 11:57 pm  36 23.4  117 46.2  2.3  15 mi. ENE of Olancha, CA
 7/24  1:54 am  33 28.8  116 29.5  2.6  11 mi. ESE of Anza, CA
 7/24  7:43 am  34 18.2  116 27.1  2.5  12 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA
 7/24 11:51 am  33 10.6  116 34.2  3.9  6 mi. NNE of Julian, CA; FELT in
                                        Temecula, Ramona, Santa Ysabel
 7/24 12:23 pm  33  9.2  116 35.0  2.1  5 mi. N of Julian, CA
 7/24  2:29 pm  33  9.1  116 35.9  2.1  5 mi. N of Julian, CA
 7/24  2:46 pm  32 11.1  115 45.6  2.7  36 mi. SSW of Calexico, CA
 7/24  5:20 pm  34 37.4  116 33.9  2.0  24 mi. ENE of Lucerne Valley, CA
 7/24  8:55 pm  33 36.0  118 58.6  2.3  10 mi. NNE of Santa Barbara Is., CA
 7/25  2:08 am  33 38.9  116 45.7  2.0  7 mi. SSW of Idyllwild, CA
 7/25  7:27 am  34 19.7  116 55.2  2.5  5 mi. N of town of Big Bear Lake, CA
 7/25 10:04 pm  35 55.9  117 15.1  2.2  13 mi. NNE of Trona, CA
 7/26 10:15 pm  36 52.9  117 40.8  3.3  28 mi. NE of Lone Pine, CA
 7/27  6:45 am  35 49.4  117 33.1  2.4  10 mi. WNW of Trona, CA
 7/27  6:55 am  33 56.8  116 21.7  3.6  8 mi. E of Desert Hot Springs, CA
 7/27 12:48 pm  32  4.1  115 32.6  3.2  41 mi. S of Calexico, CA
 7/27 11:15 pm  36 56.7  117 30.4  2.8  30 mi. NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
 7/28 11:04 am  32 32.8  115 18.0  2.2  14 mi. SE  of Calexico, CA
 7/28  9:41 pm  34 14.8  119 28.9  2.2  10 mi. SSE of Carpinteria, CA
 7/29  1:28 am  33 56.8  116 59.0  2.0  1 mi. NNW of Beaumont, CA
 7/29  3:46 am  33 10.5  116  1.2  2.1  6 mi. ENE of Ocotillo Wells, CA
 7/29  5:37 am  36 57.1  117 26.0  2.1  28 mi. NNW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
 7/29  8:13 am  32 33.5  115 18.0  3.2  13 mi. SE of Calexico, CA
 7/29  8:28 am  34 22.5  116 27.3  2.0  17 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA
 7/29  8:33 am  33 59.6  116 57.5  2.0  4 mi. NNE of Beaumont, CA
 7/29 12:24 pm  33 56.5  116 38.3  2.2  7 mi. SSW of Morongo Valley, CA
 7/29  3:53 pm  34 21.5  116 27.7  2.0  16 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA