Big Earthquakes in California-Nevada Map Area

Magnitude 3 and greater earthquakes catalogued in the last week (168 hours) for the California-Nevada map area. Some early events may be obscured by more recent ones on the maps. The top three magnitude categories above magnitude 3 (for example 3,4,5 or 4,5,6 or 5,6,7) are in red in the list below. The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Times are local (PST or PDT). Click on the word "MAP" to see a map displaying the earthquake. Click on an event's date to get additional text information.

Update time = Fri Nov 20 23:46:58 PST 2009

    MAG    DATE    LOCAL-TIME  LAT     LON    DEPTH    LOCATION
           y/m/d     h:m:s     deg     deg     km
   

MAP 3.3  2009/11/17 16:45:02 33.172N 115.609W  0.4    3 km ( 2 mi) E   of Obsidian Butte, CA
MAP 3.4  2009/11/17 16:44:00 33.182N 115.612W  2.1    3 km ( 2 mi) ENE of Obsidian Butte, CA
MAP 3.1  2009/11/17 15:07:16 33.176N 115.605W  1.6    3 km ( 2 mi) ENE of Obsidian Butte, CA
MAP 3.3  2009/11/17 15:05:36 33.176N 115.608W  1.3    3 km ( 2 mi) ENE of Obsidian Butte, CA
MAP 3.2  2009/11/17 14:52:13 33.177N 115.608W  1.5    3 km ( 2 mi) ENE of Obsidian Butte, CA
MAP 3.0  2009/11/17 05:21:32 35.551N 117.283W  3.9   25 km (16 mi) SSE of Trona, CA
MAP 4.6  2009/11/16 13:21:30 35.548N 117.275W  2.1   26 km (16 mi) SSE of Trona, CA
MAP 3.6  2009/11/16 05:54:34 33.415N 116.635W  7.9   16 km (10 mi) SSE of Anza, CA
MAP 3.6  2009/11/15 14:48:37 33.172N 119.302W  6.0   20 km (13 mi) ESE of San Nicolas Is., CA
MAP 4.4  2009/11/15 14:45:27 33.166N 119.302W  6.0   21 km (13 mi) ESE of San Nicolas Is., CA
MAP 3.3  2009/11/14 23:54:22 33.914N 117.059W 13.4    8 km ( 5 mi) W   of Beaumont, CA