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Related: About this forumString of earthquakes rattles Southern California. Are they telling us something bigger?
Southern California was recently rattled by several small earthquakes. They produced minor shaking but nonetheless left psychological aftershocks in a region whose seismic vulnerabilities are matched by our willingness to put the dangers out of our minds.
For many, it all added to one question: Is this the beginning of something bigger?
First, a magnitude 3.6 earthquake in the Ojai Valley sent weak shaking from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles on May 31. Then came two small quakes under the eastern L.A. neighborhood of El Sereno, the most powerful a 3.4. Finally, a trio of tremors hit the Costa Mesa-Newport Beach border, topping out at a magnitude 3.6 Thursday.
Having half a dozen earthquakes with a magnitude over 2.5 in a week, hitting three distinct parts of Southern California, all in highly populated areas, is not a common occurrence.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-10/string-of-southern-california-earthquakes-are-they-warning-of-something-bigger
BComplex
(9,048 posts)And I totally LOVE California. There's no other place on earth quite like it.
Arne
(3,580 posts)relieve pressures precluding something worse.
BComplex
(9,048 posts)PufPuf23
(9,233 posts)(that did not feel) 1/2 hour ago. Was most recent over 2.5 but now one in Japan is latest.
Located in northeastern Humboldt County (map at link shows as on west edge of Trinity Alp Wilderness)
31 km E of Willow Creek, CA
2024-06-10 14:58:36 (UTC-07:00)
26.6 km
Have two friends from high school (in late 60s East SF Bay) enroute from Berkeley (one Oklahoma via Berkeley) today. They have motel reservations in Willow Creek and expect them to show up at my home with pizza and beer at 7 PM.
Tomorrow we will take a loop to Louse Camp which is close to the alleged Patterson Bigfoot film site taken in 1967, but mostly on ridge top roads for scenery. Nice pools of water at Louse Camp. My maternal grandfather Harvey Van Pelt is the Van of Van's Peak which is the upper end of Sasquatch Ridge on the Camp Creek - Bluff Creek divide. Pretty sure will see black bear, Roosevelt elk, and many blue grouse and part of forest has acres of rhododendron understory in bloom. Could see condors from the re-establishment program in nearby Redwood National Park.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=21.20746,-129.99023&extent=52.32191,-60.0293
dickthegrouch
(3,524 posts)Its world wide and has filters for minimum level and recency.
You can look at a list of all quakes above a 2.5.