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- April 6, 1995
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- Weekly Earthquake Report for Southern California
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- March 30 - April 5, 1995
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- Prepared by: Kate Hutton, Seismological Laboratory
- (kate@bombay.gps.caltech.edu)
- Lucy Jones, U.S. Geological Survey
- California Institute of Technology
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- For further information, please contact the authors or the
- Caltech Public Relations Office at 818-395-6326. For daily
- updates, call our Earthquake Information Hotline: 818-395-6977.
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- This week's Report covers the time period from midnight Thursday
- morning, March 30, Pacific Standard Time, to midnight
- Wednesday night, April 5, 1995, Pacific Daylight Time. We
- recorded 305 earthquakes of M1.0 or larger during the 7-day
- period covered.
- Interestingly, none of the M3+ quakes this week was an
- aftershock. Perhaps the most excitement occurred Monday night,
- with the two feelable quakes near the San Jacinto Fault, at
- different locations. The first, M3.7, was in Cajon Pass at the
- near the intersection of the San Jacinto with the San Andreas
- Fault, at 10:08 pm, while the second occurred 78 minutes later
- near Loma Linda. Both were felt in the San Bernardino area. It
- turns out that neither was actually on the San Jacinto Fault
- itself, or the San Andreas. The first quake was produced by
- thrust on a northwest-striking fault, similar to the mechanism
- of the 1970 Lytle Creek earthquake (M5.2), that occurred in the
- same area in the compression zone between the San Jacinto and
- San Andreas Faults. The second quake was produced by a
- northeast-striking "normal" fault at a depth of 18 km. This
- could be a projection at depth of the normal Crafton Hills
- Fault. A normal fault is the opposite of a thrust fault, with
- downward motion of a block along a dipping fault plane.
- There were three other M3+'s this week: a M3.2 on
- Saturday night just south of the U.S./Mexican border, a M3.1
- on Monday morning near Ridgecrest, and a M3.3 near Cholame
- yesterday. For more information on the Cholame quake, see the
- Northern California Earthquake Report.
- Since we have just finished the first quarter of 1995,
- it is time to look again at our seismicity statistics. We had
- the fewest number of earthquakes this quarter than we have had
- since before the Joshua Tree earthquake in 1992, only 3,818
- inside our recording network. The following table shows the
- quarterly totals for the past few years, including both the
- total number events and the number above M3.
-
- 1st quarter 2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter
- all 3.0+ all 3.0+ all 3.0+ all 3.0+
- 1990 3,483 56 2,627 45 2,225 27 2,403 31
- 1991 2,041 11 2,218 32 2,445 23 2,651 29
- 1992 3,618 40 10,288 744 25,000+ 781 10,700+ 166
- 1993 4,939 43 5,370 61 5,298 48 4,583 35
- 1994 10,915 417 5,978 44 5,400 50 5,040 39
- 1995 3,818 29
-
- There were 399 more Northridge aftershocks this quarter,
- making a total of 11,426 events since the Mw6.7 (moment
- magnitude) mainshock on January 17, 1994. There were 1,516 more
- Landers/Big Bear aftershocks, for a total of over 45,000. We
- still have not finished processing all of them, so we do not know
- the exact total. By the way, if the Earth stays quiet, we expect
- to be finished with all the 1992 earthquakes, including most of
- the Landers/Big Bear aftershocks, by the end of the summer.
- The table lists the quakes this 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.
-
- Table 1
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- Date Time N Lat. W Long. Mag
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- 3/30 5:44 am 32 57.4 117 42.1 2.1 24 mi. SW of Oceanside
- 3/30 6:03 am 34 22.0 116 27.7 2.4 17 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 3/30 6:08 am 34 22.7 116 27.9 2.2 "
- 3/30 6:08 am 34 22.3 116 27.4 2.2 "
- 3/30 10:10 am 33 32.8 115 53.9 2.3 2 mi. ENE of North Shore
- 3/30 1:45 pm 34 13.5 118 22.9 2.0 2 mi. NW of Burbank
- Airport
- 3/30 3:20 pm 34 8.1 116 35.7 2.1 8 mi. W of Yucca Valley
- 3/30 6:48 pm 33 1.0 116 14.9 2.2 11 mi. SW of Ocotillo
- Wells
- 3/31 3:22 am 34 41.0 120 15.8 2.1 9 mi. NW of Solvang
- 3/31 6:43 am 33 50.2 118 48.6 2.0 11 mi. S of Pt. Dume
- 3/31 10:02 am 33 5.7 116 4.2 2.5 4 mi. SE of Ocotillo
- Wells
- 4/1 5:30 am 34 9.3 116 25.3 2.1 2 mi. NNE of Yucca Valley
- 4/1 7:57 am 33 58.1 118 41.1 2.3 4 mi. S of Malibu
- 4/1 9:01 am 32 57.8 115 52.9 2.0 17 mi. NNE of Ocotillo
- 4/1 11:41 am 35 59.2 117 60.0 2.5 4 mi. SW of Coso Junction
- 4/1 1:51 pm 33 43.6 118 0.8 2.0 5 mi. E of Seal Beach
- 4/1 4:16 pm 36 9.6 118 7.4 2.8 10 mi. SW of Olancha
- 4/1 5:04 pm 34 11.5 116 49.6 2.0 5 mi. SSE of Big Bear
- City
- 4/1 7:55 pm 32 39.4 115 54.5 2.0 7 mi. SE of Ocotillo
- 4/1 10:02 pm 34 47.7 116 17.8 2.1 34 mi. SSW of Baker
- 4/1 11:49 pm 32 28.1 115 28.3 2.3 13 mi. S of Calexico
- 4/1 11:49 pm 32 27.9 115 28.2 3.2 "
- 4/2 9:13 am 36 10.5 118 7.2 2.0 9 mi. SW of Olancha
- 4/2 9:17 am 36 10.2 118 7.6 2.0 "
- 4/2 11:27 am 34 24.4 116 28.2 2.0 19 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/2 3:37 pm 35 21.3 118 37.2 2.0 15 mi. NE of Arvin
- 4/3 12:54 am 35 38.7 118 58.0 2.1 17 mi. N of downtown
- Bakersfield
- 4/3 5:27 am 33 59.5 116 48.0 2.6 4 mi. N of Cabazon
- 4/3 9:13 am 35 50.9 117 37.9 3.1 15 mi. N of Ridgecrest
- 4/3 10:21 am 34 23.3 116 28.1 2.2 18 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/3 10:27 am 34 58.9 116 57.1 2.2 7 mi. NNE of Barstow
- 4/3 10:47 am 33 1.5 115 34.5 2.1 2 mi. ESE of Westmorland
- 4/3 10:47 am 33 43.8 118 39.3 2.7 13 mi. WSW of Palos
- Verdes Point
- 4/3 7:09 pm 34 23.3 116 27.9 2.0 18 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/3 10:08 pm 34 16.0 117 28.1 3.7 4 mi. NW of the I15/I215
- interchange/Cajon Pass
- 4/3 11:26 pm 34 3.2 117 15.5 3.5 2 mi. ESE of the I10/I215
- interchange/Loma Linda
- 4/4 12:21 am 32 44.3 116 5.1 2.3 5 mi. W of Ocotillo
- 4/4 12:36 am 36 2.4 117 52.3 2.3 4 mi. E of Coso Junction
- 4/4 2:25 pm 35 50.3 117 44.2 2.2 15 mi. NNW of Ridgecrest
- 4/4 2:44 pm 34 8.7 117 1.5 2.0 6 mi. SE of Running
- Springs
- 4/4 5:12 pm 36 1.1 117 40.4 2.3 15 mi. E of Coso Junction
- 4/4 6:14 pm 34 33.0 116 31.3 2.0 25 mi. ENE of Lucerne
- Valley
- 4/5 12:15 am 34 8.6 116 26.0 2.0 1 mi. NNE of Yucca Valley
- 4/5 5:40 am 34 2.9 117 2.3 2.0 8 mi. NNW of Beaumont
- 4/5 1:20 pm 35 46.2 120 19.8 3.3 3 mi. NNW of Cholame
- 4/5 2:49 pm 32 30.0 115 26.9 2.2 11 mi. SSE of Calexico
- 4/5 3:20 pm 33 11.3 115 35.9 2.1 5 mi. SW of Niland
- 4/5 10:24 pm 34 23.0 116 27.1 2.4 18 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/5 11:12 pm 32 28.0 115 28.0 2.0 14 mi. S of Calexico
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