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- April 13, 1995
-
- Weekly Earthquake Report for Southern California
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- April 6 - 12, 1995
-
- Prepared by: Kate Hutton, Seismological Laboratory
- (kate@bombay.gps.caltech.edu)
- Lucy Jones, U.S. Geological Survey
- California Institute of Technology
-
- 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, April 6, Pacific Daylight Time, to midnight
- Wednesday night, April 12, 1995, Pacific Daylight Time. We
- recorded 271 earthquakes of M1.0 or larger during the 7-day
- period covered.
- There were four M3+ quakes this week, all of them
- aftershocks of the June 28, 1992 Landers quake. The largest
- one, M3.7, occurred early Monday morning. It might have been
- felt, even though it was in a fairly unpopulated area; however,
- we got no calls. Its focal mechanism showed strike-slip
- faulting, like most of the Landers aftershocks. Last Thursday
- evening, there was a M3.1 in the same general vicinity, also
- apparently unnoticed by the public. On Sunday afternoon, a M3.3
- nearer to Yucca Valley was felt, as was a M3.4 on Tuesday morning.
- The latter was near the southern end of the Landers aftershock
- zone. Its focal mechanism showed northeast-striking normal
- faulting. This type of mechanism was common in all of the Little
- San Bernardino Mountains before the Joshua Tree earthquake and is
- similar to the mechanism of the M3.2 earthquake that occurred west
- of the Landers/Joshua Tree aftershock zone on March 27.
- This week, the largest Northridge aftershock was only
- M2.3. Since the Northridge mainshock (Mw6.7) was quite a bit
- smaller than the Landers aftershock (Mw7.3), the former's after-
- shocks have overall been fewer and have been dying off more
- quickly. We have already passed the point in time when the
- weekly rate of Landers aftershocks is higher than that of
- Northridge. Recent Weekly Reports have been reflecting this
- trend. Given the present rates of aftershocks and their rates
- of decay, we expect the Landers sequence to be noticeable on our
- maps for another five years, while Northridge may have returned
- to the background rate in another two years.
- 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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- 4/6 1:32 am 33 48.8 116 11.9 2.5 6 mi. N of Indio
- 4/6 11:38 am 35 4.9 119 4.0 2.8 7 mi. NW of the I5/99
- interchange/Grapevine
- 4/6 11:39 am 35 4.8 119 5.0 2.1 "
- 4/6 5:22 pm 35 49.3 117 45.7 2.4 14 mi. NNW of Ridgecrest
- 4/6 7:01 pm 34 12.0 116 26.0 2.2 5 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/6 7:04 pm 32 28.7 115 49.5 2.0 20 mi. SSE of Ocotillo
- 4/6 8:17 pm 34 21.9 116 28.2 3.1 17 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/6 11:38 pm 34 12.2 118 38.2 2.0 1 mi. W of Canoga Park
- 4/7 5:50 am 35 58.6 117 18.8 2.4 14 mi. NNE of Trona
- 4/7 9:51 am 34 37.4 116 36.0 2.0 23 mi. ENE of Lucerne
- Valley
- 4/7 11:00 am 34 23.2 118 37.2 2.0 3 mi. SW of Magic Mtn.
- 4/7 2:30 pm 34 37.9 116 30.4 2.4 28 mi. ENE of Lucerne
- Valley
- 4/7 4:20 pm 35 43.5 118 29.5 2.3 6 mi. NNW of the town of
- Lake Isabella
- 4/7 4:52 pm 33 0.6 116 5.4 2.1 9 mi. SSE of Ocotillo
- Wells
- 4/7 8:06 pm 34 16.7 119 57.5 2.3 10 mi. SSW of Isla Vista
- 4/7 8:41 pm 33 11.6 115 33.9 2.2 4 mi. SW of Niland
- Obsidian Butte
- 4/7 9:07 pm 34 17.1 119 56.9 2.0 10 mi. SSW of Isla Vista
- 4/8 2:27 am 34 16.2 119 56.6 2.4 "
- 4/8 9:29 am 34 24.8 116 28.4 2.3 20 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/8 1:19 pm 34 22.3 116 28.1 2.1 17 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/8 5:17 pm 33 10.3 115 37.0 2.0 6 mi. WNW of Calipatria
- 4/8 10:45 pm 36 15.2 120 16.2 2.5 9 mi. NNE of Coalinga
- 4/9 5:26 am 34 7.2 116 55.1 2.4 5 mi. WNW of Mt. San
- Gorgonio
- 4/9 4:01 pm 34 2.4 116 19.3 3.3 8 mi. SE of Yucca Valley
- FELT
- 4/9 7:46 pm 34 17.1 118 27.3 2.3 1 mi. WNW of San Fernando
- 4/9 7:55 pm 35 55.9 117 40.0 2.5 17 mi. ESE of Coso Junction
- Coso Range
- 4/9 7:56 pm 35 55.9 117 40.0 2.7 "
- 4/9 9:57 pm 33 11.5 115 36.4 2.3 6 mi. WSW of Niland
- Obsidian Butte
- 4/9 10:02 pm 33 11.4 115 36.8 2.9 "
- 4/9 11:58 pm 34 59.2 116 57.2 2.2 7 mi. NNE of Barstow
- 4/10 1:17 am 33 11.6 115 35.4 2.0 5 mi. SW of Niland
- Obsidian Butte
- 4/10 2:26 am 33 11.4 115 35.5 2.0 "
- 4/10 2:41 am 34 10.1 116 26.2 2.0 3 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/10 7:01 am 34 24.7 116 28.2 3.7 20 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/10 7:10 am 36 1.7 118 13.4 2.0 15 mi. W of Coso Junction
- Coso Range
- 4/10 9:27 am 34 28.5 116 29.7 2.1 24 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/10 11:42 am 34 59.0 116 56.8 2.5 7 mi. NNE of Barstow
- 4/10 1:26 pm 34 14.8 118 29.0 2.1 2 mi. ENE of Northridge
- 4/10 5:00 pm 33 20.3 116 14.6 2.3 9 mi. NE of Borrego
- Springs
- 4/11 2:27 am 34 23.1 116 27.4 2.0 18 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/11 3:06 am 34 22.3 116 27.2 2.2 "
- 4/11 8:56 am 33 54.4 116 17.5 3.4 13 mi. NNW of Indio; FELT
- 4/11 10:30 am 34 22.1 116 27.5 2.1 17 mi. N of Yucca Valley
- 4/11 11:45 am 34 21.7 116 27.5 2.1 "
- 4/11 6:55 pm 36 5.5 117 40.2 2.6 15 mi. ESE of Haiwee Reservoir
- Coso Range
- 4/12 3:23 am 33 54.4 116 17.5 2.5 13 mi. NNW of Indio
- 4/12 8:47 pm 34 18.3 118 25.6 2.1 1 mi. NNE of San Fernando
- 4/12 8:52 pm 33 32.9 115 54.3 2.4 2 mi. NE of North Shore
- 4/12 10:07 pm 34 56.5 116 46.7 2.0 14 mi. ENE of Barstow
- 4/12 11:53 pm 35 18.3 118 30.6 2.6 12 mi. NNW of Tehachapi
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