Southern California Earthquakes in the Past Week

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

January 12, 2001


The time period covered is 4 pm on Thursday, January 4 (PST) through 4 pm on Thursday, January 11, 2001 (PST). During this period we dectected and analysed 194 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.

Date  Time      Lat.     Long.     Mag. Descriptive location
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 1/4   6:35 pm  36 30.6  117 54.9  2.2   10 mi. SE  of Lone Pine, CA                 
 1/5   6:10 pm  35  4.2  116 59.0  2.2   12 mi. N   of Barstow, CA                   
 1/6   5:09 am  33 29.0  116 33.9  2.2    7 mi. SE  of Anza, CA                      
 1/6   8:48 am  33 49.0  116 53.3  2.3    6 mi. NE  of Hemet, CA                     
 1/6  11:32 am  35 43.1  117 39.2  2.1    6 mi. N   of Ridgecrest, CA                
 1/6  11:19 pm  32  5.4  114 59.5  3.2   47 mi. SSW of Yuma, AZ                      
 1/7   2:10 am  33 15.1  115 58.4  2.1    1 mi. SSW of Salton City, CA               
 1/7   1:26 pm  34 22.0  116 27.3  2.2   17 mi. N   of Yucca Valley, CA              
 1/7   7:21 pm  32 50.3  116  7.6  2.1   10 mi. NW  of Ocotillo, CA                  
 1/7   8:16 pm  35 23.0  119 26.4  2.4   16 mi. N   of Taft, CA                      
 1/8   4:43 am  32 48.3  118 51.4  2.6   21 mi. SW  of San Clemente Is., CA (NW tip) 
 1/8  10:30 am  32 50.3  116  7.2  2.3   10 mi. NW  of Ocotillo, CA                  
 1/8   6:51 pm  34  4.8  117 48.0  2.7    3 mi. WNW of Pomona, CA                    
                                        FELT in Pomona, Claremont, etc.
 1/8   7:30 pm  33 23.0  116 58.0  2.0    6 mi. WNW of Palomar Observatory, CA       
 1/8   8:51 pm  34  4.7  117 48.0  2.3    3 mi. WNW of Pomona, CA                    
 1/8  11:57 pm  32 50.3  116  7.4  2.0   10 mi. NW  of Ocotillo, CA                  
 1/9  12:27 am  32 50.4  116  7.1  2.4   10 mi. NW  of Ocotillo, CA                  
 1/9   2:38 pm  36 14.4  117 52.8  2.5    7 mi. ESE of Olancha, CA                   
 1/9   8:44 pm  34 26.0  117 53.9  2.2   15 mi. SE  of Palmdale, CA                  
 1/9  11:52 pm  33  5.1  118  3.7  2.0   23 mi. SE  of Avalon, Catalina Island, CA   
 1/10 12:50 am  33 12.8  116 45.6  2.0    1 mi. S   of Lake Henshaw, CA              
 1/10 12:08 pm  34 48.3  116 16.7  2.2   33 mi. SSW of Baker, CA                     
 1/10  1:45 pm  33 33.7  118 20.9  2.8   10 mi. SSW of Pt. Fermin, San Pedro, CA     
 1/10  2:38 pm  33 35.1  118 13.1  2.3    9 mi. SSE of Pt. Fermin, San Pedro, CA     
 1/10  4:36 pm  32  4.3  115  0.2  2.7   48 mi. SSW of Yuma, AZ                      
 1/11  4:40 am  34 20.0  116 28.2  2.0   14 mi. N   of Yucca Valley, CA              
 1/11  7:59 am  35 27.0  118 10.0  2.0   21 mi. SE  of town of Lake Isabella, CA     
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