Earthquakes near California-Mexico border

[wmfinck]

Has anybody been watching all of these? Is this not unusual? Looks like they are headed north.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 6.-114.php

Map Centered at 32°N, 115°W

[wmfinck]

Here is another link:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... es_all.php

And here is a slightly different view from the site in the first post:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 7.-115.php

Map Centered at 33°N, 116°W

[PILGRIM]

If I'm reading those maps correctly, it appears that you are seeing aftershocks of some sort following that big 7 pointer in Mexico about a week ago. You note the biggest box (about 7.0) is yellow and the oldest. The boxes cluster around and out from there over time from a week ago to a few hours ago and mostly growing progressively smaller.

If that is the case, then that is not too uncommon and the larger the original quake then the more aftershock or smaller quake activity you tend to have for a while (sometimes for quite a while) after that because the big one rattled everything loose.

If you check in at that USGS site on a daily basis, you will always see quite a few quakes listed in the area around the Pacific Rim. Thankfully, they occur most often over closer to Indonesian islands and Asia than our coastline, but we get a good number of them as well, and usually they are not too large in magnitude.

Things to note on that daily report is the size of the quakes being reported (there are ALWAYS quakes in that area) and where they are occurring, but there is no doubt in the last few years the quake activity has increased ... What you really want to look out for is any activity being recorded in unusual places like, say, back east where they are riddled with faults that have been basically inactive for a very long time ...

[JamesTheJust]

I didn't see any activity in the East unless you consider the Virgin Islands and Porto Rico "back east".

It'd be nice if you could move further inland, Pilgrim.

[mouthypatricia]

On the other hand, ocean front Vegas sounds good to me. We got plenty of sand- we just need some salt water.

[wmfinck]

Missing Maui already, Patricia?