Southern California Earthquakes in the Past Week

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

August 28, 1998


The time period covered is 5 pm on Thursday, August 20 through 5 pm on Thursday, August 27, local time. During this period, we detected and analysed 227 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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 8/20  8:30 pm  34  6.9  116 55.4  2.0  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA         
 8/20  9:34 pm  34  6.6  116 55.3  2.3  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA    
 8/20 10:22 pm  34 19.1  116 29.2  2.7  14 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA       
 8/21  4:05 pm  32 17.6  115  8.6  2.5  33 mi. SE of Calexico, CA            
 8/21  5:58 pm  35 56.6  117 19.8  2.9  12 mi. N of Trona, CA               
 8/22 12:02 am  35 28.3  118 25.1  2.0  11 mi. SSE of town of Lake Isabella, CA
 8/22  1:57 am  34 29.2  119 20.8  2.2  6 mi. WNW of Ojai, CA            
 8/22  2:11 am  33 46.0  117 41.6  2.0  7 mi. ENE of Tustin, CA          
 8/22  4:45 am  34 24.5  116 28.1  2.6  20 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA      
 8/22  9:03 pm  33 56.1  116 56.9  2.2  1 mi. ENE of Beaumont, CA            
 8/22  9:06 pm  34 23.5  118 58.8  2.2  3 mi. W of Fillmore, CA         
 8/23  1:39 am  34  6.5  116 55.3  2.1  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA     
 8/23  2:00 am  34 16.1  117 12.1  2.3  1 mi. NNW of Lake Arrowhead, CA     
 8/23  3:48 am  34  6.9  116 55.7  2.0  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA     
 8/23  7:33 am  35 42.0  118 27.0  2.6  4 mi. NNE of town of Lake Isabella, CA 
 8/23  8:24 am  34  6.8  116 55.5  2.3  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA   
 8/23  8:29 am  34  6.6  116 55.5  2.2  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA       
 8/23  8:31 am  34  7.0  116 55.5  2.4  5 mi. WNW of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA    
 8/23  8:42 am  34  6.0  116 57.2  3.4  6 mi. NE of Yucaipa, CA; FELT        
 8/23  8:57 am  34  6.6  116 55.5  2.8  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA   
 8/23  1:15 pm  36 10.8  118  1.2  2.2  7 mi. S of Olancha, CA             
 8/24  5:59 am  34 22.5  117 39.5  2.0  2 mi. WNW of Wrightwood, CA        
 8/24 11:01 am  33  0.6  117 49.3  2.1  30 mi. SSW of San Clemente, CA       
 8/24  5:03 pm  34 22.5  117 38.8  2.0  1 mi. NW of Wrightwood, CA         
 8/25 12:00 am  33 46.6  117 41.0  2.3  8 mi. ENE of Tustin, CA             
 8/25  2:35 am  35 33.3  119 16.9  2.4  20 mi. NW of Bakersfield, CA        
 8/26  8:50 am  37  9.6  117 49.6  3.6  25 mi. E of Big Pine, CA           
 8/26  9:44 am  34  6.4  116 55.7  2.2  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA   
 8/26 10:11 am  34  6.2  116 55.3  2.0  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA      
 8/26  1:46 pm  34 17.1  118 26.1  3.3  Under San Fernando, CA; FELT
 8/26  2:51 pm  34  0.6  118 25.6  2.7  1 mi. WNW of Culver City, CA; FELT  
 8/26  3:44 pm  34  0.3  118 25.3  2.1  1 mi. WNW of Culver City, CA      
 8/26  8:10 pm  32 30.5  115 14.2  3.4  18 mi. SE of Calexico, CA          
 8/27  1:29 am  34  6.8  116 55.3  2.6  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA       
 8/27  3:32 am  34 23.1  116 27.5  2.5  18 mi. N of Yucca Valley, CA       
 8/27  1:48 pm  34  6.4  116 55.1  2.1  5 mi. W of Mt. San Gorgonio, CA     
 8/27  4:38 pm  33  7.9  115 41.3  2.4  4 mi. SW of Obsidian Butte, CA