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 = Sat May 17 5:00:01 PDT 2008

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

MAP 3.1  2008/05/17 02:25:25 41.883N 116.768W  0.0   53 km (33 mi) W   of Owyhee, NV
MAP 3.0  2008/05/16 08:01:12 34.000N 116.857W 14.3    8 km ( 5 mi) NNE of Banning, CA
MAP 3.4  2008/05/15 06:44:48 39.532N 119.910W  2.8    4 km ( 3 mi) ENE of Verdi-Mogul, NV
MAP 3.3  2008/05/15 00:55:18 35.839N 120.389W  9.0    8 km ( 5 mi) SSE of Parkfield, CA
MAP 3.4  2008/05/14 15:05:01 37.214N 115.788W  8.7   51 km (31 mi) SSW of Tempiute, NV
MAP 4.3  2008/05/12 21:07:39 40.801N 125.374W  9.7   97 km (60 mi) WNW of Ferndale, CA