Southern California Earthquakes in the Past Week

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

April 25, 2002


The time period covered is 5 pm on Thursday, April 18 (PDT) through 5 pm on Thursday, April 25 (PDT). During this period we dectected and analysed 186 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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 9779261  2.0  2002/04/19 09:35:32 36  4.9 N 117 49.8 W  5.0   11 km ( 7 mi) ENE  of Coso Junction, CA  
 9779341  2.0  2002/04/19 15:15:27 32 58.5 N 116 41.9 W  4.2   15 km ( 9 mi) SW   of Julian, CA  
12880252  2.7  2002/04/22 16:35:44 32 20.8 N 115 18.9 W  7.0   40 km (25 mi) SSE  of Calexico, CA  
12880296  2.0  2002/04/22 23:06:06 33  8.4 N 115 36.9 W  7.1    4 km ( 2 mi) SSE  of Obsidian Butte, CA  
12880568  2.3  2002/04/24 00:19:15 33 43.7 N 119 25.5 W  7.0   35 km (22 mi) SSE  of Santa Cruz Is. 
12880688  2.3  2002/04/24 13:45:52 34 16.5 N 116 41.9 W  5.7   14 km ( 9 mi) E    of Big Bear City, CA  
12880760  2.2  2002/04/25 04:21:57 34 11.7 N 119  9.2 W  2.9    2 km ( 1 mi) E    of Oxnard, CA  
12880792  2.4  2002/04/25 09:08:24 35 59.6 N 117 52.1 W  3.7    9 km ( 6 mi) SE   of Coso Junction, CA  
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