🚨California: 98 Earthquakes In 24 Hours | Major Fault Zone
Southern California’s live USGS map is showing 98 earthquakes in the last 24 hours in the region I am tracking, with many of those tiny tremors lining up along major fault trends. On the surface, 98 sounds extreme, but this is where the deeper story starts.
USGS estimates that Southern California averages around 10,000 earthquakes every year. That is roughly 25–30 quakes per day on average, and most of them are so small that nobody feels them. They exist only on seismograph screens. With better instruments and new detection methods, scientists have found that there are actually far more microquakes than the older catalogs ever showed. That means seeing dozens or even close to a hundred tiny events in one 24 hour window is not automatically a sign that “the Big One” is about to hit, but it is absolutely a sign that the fault network is active and slipping right now.
At the same time, this is not some random calm area. Southern California sits on a tangled plate boundary that includes the San Andreas, San Jacinto and many other faults capable of producing magnitude 7 and 8 earthquakes. History has already delivered events like the 1971 San Fernando, 1994 Northridge, 1992 Landers and 2019 Ridgecrest sequences. Those were all preceded by “just small quakes” on maps that looked a lot like today’s, until one of them suddenly was not small anymore.
I am monitoring the same USGS and Caltech feeds seismologists use, in real time. If this turns into a swarm, if we see a stronger mainshock, or if any official statements change, I will break it down for you within minutes, not days.
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