Where have all the California earthquakes gone?

Wasn't sure in which forum to post...hope this is the right place.

I keep an eye on earthquakes as I live in the Pacific northwest. I have a new phone and reinstalled my earthquake app on Tuesday. I thought there was something wrong with the app or that USGS was offline as there were no earthquakes in California. Here we are at Monday and STILL NO QUAKES.

I know from having monitored quakes for the last few years years that California has many QUAKES all the time. Obviously none of them are very strong but there are always SOME QUAKES.....so what's going on?

I don't want to be all doomy but it seems really unusual and it makes me feel uneasy....

Maybe it's saving it up for the one

Never heard of "the calm before the storm"?

reply to post by vampira309

Try this link:
hisz.rsoe.hu...
Maybe some sites are phasing out alerts for anything under a magnitude of 2? Or just glitches in the systems ?

Something must be wrong with your app. There have been plenty of eqs over past week.

www.data.scec.org...

That whole scene is 'underground' now..



Sorry, couldn't help myself.

I don't now much about EQ's, but I remember being told that during periods of no quakes, be them mini or not, that the fault would be gathering pressure or something like that.

~Tenth

Maybe they just "temporarily" shut down all the monitoring sites due to a credible Al Qaeda threat.

I use the RSOE site and app and have for a long time. Their site is showing a few - 3 in California in the last 24 hrs - but that is still so few compared to normal...USGS has the same info. I just feel the lack of activity isn't good. We'll see, I suppose!

There is definitely something wrong with my other app though!!

Thanks for the input!

All is normal look at the info here quakes.globalincidentmap.com...

Monday August 5 2013, 21:31:47 UTC 2 minutes ago Central Alaska 1.4 5.7 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 21:11:55 UTC 22 minutes ago Greater Los Angeles area, California 1.4 0.3 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 21:05:12 UTC 28 minutes ago Nevada 1.6 0.1 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 20:48:40 UTC 45 minutes ago Libertador O'higgins, Chile 2.6 55.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 20:43:24 UTC 50 minutes ago Cyprus Region 3.3 6.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 20:32:32 UTC 61 minutes ago Central California 1.2 2.5 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 20:18:37 UTC 75 minutes ago Northern California 1.3 2.8 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 20:12:43 UTC 81 minutes ago Tarapaca, Chile 2.4 102.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 20:07:35 UTC 86 minutes ago Southern California 1.4 10.7 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 20:04:41 UTC 89 minutes ago Kenai Peninsula, Alaska 1.5 35.5 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:58:41 UTC 95 minutes ago Central California 2.9 6.1 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:53:42 UTC 100 minutes ago northern Alaska 1.6 9.4 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:47:45 UTC 106 minutes ago Southern Italy 2.3 10.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:30:21 UTC 2 hours ago Central California 1.3 2.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:29:20 UTC 2 hours ago Western Turkey 2.2 10.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:21:15 UTC 2 hours ago San Juan, Argentina 3.0 145.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:16:07 UTC 2 hours ago Greater Los Angeles area, California 1.6 1.8 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:15:34 UTC 2 hours ago Southern Alaska 1.9 0.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:15:12 UTC 2 hours ago Southern Alaska 3.0 14.9 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 19:13:34 UTC 2 hours ago Southern California 1.3 19.9 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 18:59:44 UTC 2 hours ago Central Alaska 1.3 0.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 18:49:44 UTC 2 hours ago Central California 1.6 15.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 18:06:53 UTC 3 hours ago Southern Alaska 1.7 84.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 18:03:03 UTC 3 hours ago Nevada 1.1 0.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 18:02:42 UTC 3 hours ago Antofagasta, Chile 3.4 186.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 18:00:07 UTC 3 hours ago Central California 2.0 0.5 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 17:36:05 UTC 3 hours ago Southern California 1.1 7.4 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 17:33:20 UTC 4 hours ago Nevada 1.5 7.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 17:27:40 UTC 4 hours ago Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska 2.9 21.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 17:12:33 UTC 4 hours ago San Pablo Bay, California 1.5 0.8 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 16:35:15 UTC 4 hours ago Central Alaska 1.6 0.1 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 16:27:47 UTC 5 hours ago Northern California 1.2 2.6 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 16:21:24 UTC 5 hours ago Greece 2.9 2.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 16:18:18 UTC 5 hours ago Balleny Islands region 5.0 10.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 16:18:18 UTC 5 hours ago Balleny Islands Region 5.0 10.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 16:05:27 UTC 5 hours ago Montenegro 2.2 10.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 16:05:15 UTC 5 hours ago Central Alaska 1.1 7.8 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 15:42:40 UTC 5 hours ago Potosi, Bolivia 3.0 201.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 15:42:27 UTC 5 hours ago near the coast of Nicaragua 4.1 77.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 15:42:27 UTC 5 hours ago Near Coast Of Nicaragua 4.1 77.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 15:33:08 UTC 6 hours ago Valparaiso, Chile 2.6 51.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 15:28:04 UTC 6 hours ago Southern Alaska 1.4 33.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 15:19:48 UTC 6 hours ago Western Turkey 2.2 5.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 15:08:34 UTC 6 hours ago Nevada 2.5 0.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 15:02:54 UTC 6 hours ago Vanuatu 5.0 100.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 15:02:52 UTC 6 hours ago Vanuatu 5.0 73.7 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 14:53:40 UTC 6 hours ago Western Turkey 2.0 7.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 14:46:02 UTC 6 hours ago Western Turkey 2.4 3.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 14:38:52 UTC 6 hours ago Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands 4.7 32.9 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 14:38:50 UTC 6 hours ago Pagan Reg., N. Mariana Islands 4.7 10.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 14:04:34 UTC 7 hours ago Southern Alaska 1.2 0.1 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 13:57:48 UTC 7 hours ago Kashmir-India border region 4.4 36.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 13:57:45 UTC 7 hours ago Kashmir-india Border Region 4.4 12.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 13:48:44 UTC 7 hours ago Southern Alaska 1.7 1.3 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 13:48:12 UTC 7 hours ago Puerto Rico region 2.1 7.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 13:42:55 UTC 7 hours ago Bulgaria 2.7 2.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 13:18:19 UTC 8 hours ago Northern California 1.6 21.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 13:15:53 UTC 8 hours ago Antofagasta, Chile 3.2 159.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 13:01:25 UTC 8 hours ago Central Turkey 1.9 16.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 12:52:32 UTC 8 hours ago Southern California 1.8 9.4 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 12:51:15 UTC 8 hours ago Kenai Peninsula, Alaska 2.5 16.6 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 12:47:07 UTC 8 hours ago Central California 1.3 5.6 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 12:41:16 UTC 8 hours ago Central Turkey 3.1 9.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 12:40:39 UTC 8 hours ago Central California 1.4 10.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 12:39:50 UTC 8 hours ago Greater Los Angeles area, California 1.4 12.4 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 12:33:46 UTC 9 hours ago Valparaiso, Chile 2.8 56.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 12:32:17 UTC 9 hours ago Central Alaska 1.9 0.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 12:32:17 UTC 9 hours ago Central Alaska 1.9 0.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 11:56:52 UTC 9 hours ago Greater Los Angeles area, California 1.2 11.6 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 11:56:01 UTC 9 hours ago Central California 1.3 4.1 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 11:54:00 UTC 9 hours ago Central Alaska 3.2 56.5 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 11:24:05 UTC 10 hours ago near the coast of central Peru 4.4 35.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 11:24:04 UTC 10 hours ago Near Coast Of Central Peru 4.7 10.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 11:10:13 UTC 10 hours ago Western Turkey 2.0 14.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 11:09:38 UTC 10 hours ago Nevada 1.3 11.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 11:06:46 UTC 10 hours ago Northern California 1.1 7.5 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 10:55:24 UTC 10 hours ago Central California 1.8 7.9 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 10:34:23 UTC 10 hours ago Southern Alaska 1.4 33.6 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 10:34:23 UTC 10 hours ago Southern Alaska 1.4 33.6 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 10:34:23 UTC 10 hours ago Southern Alaska 1.5 34.6 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 10:20:34 UTC 11 hours ago Long Valley area, California 1.5 8.6 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 10:08:10 UTC 11 hours ago Sicily, Italy 2.2 155.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:58:42 UTC 11 hours ago Central California 2.8 7.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:50:21 UTC 11 hours ago Alaska Peninsula 2.2 63.3 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:49:43 UTC 11 hours ago Central Alaska 1.3 70.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:48:42 UTC 11 hours ago Southern California 1.3 11.4 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:41:49 UTC 11 hours ago Southern California 1.0 10.0 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:35:34 UTC 11 hours ago Western Turkey 2.0 5.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:32:14 UTC 12 hours ago Central California 1.3 1.9 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:29:04 UTC 12 hours ago Central Italy 2.4 10.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:27:19 UTC 12 hours ago Western Turkey 2.1 15.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:23:02 UTC 12 hours ago Dodecanese Is.-turkey Border Reg 2.5 14.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:17:26 UTC 12 hours ago Western Turkey 2.0 9.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:12:43 UTC 12 hours ago Southern California 1.7 5.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 09:12:14 UTC 12 hours ago Crete, Greece 2.9 7.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 08:53:25 UTC 12 hours ago Northern California 1.8 1.5 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 08:53:25 UTC 12 hours ago Northern California 1.8 1.5 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 08:50:26 UTC 12 hours ago Southern Alaska 1.7 49.2 USGS Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 08:48:29 UTC 12 hours ago Western Turkey 1.9 4.0 CSEM-EMSC Feed Detail
Monday August 5 2013, 08:47:17 UTC 12 hours ago Greater Los Angeles area, California 1.1 0.0 USGS Feed Detail

Don't know/care as long as they stay away! There are always little ones happening. It's the bigger ones that are not happening, which is ominous. As stated before, could be pressure is building up for a really big one.

Sounds like your app (or one of its settings) is filtering out the lower magnitude quakes. (Most aren't human-perceptible until somewhere around 4 on the scale.) Plenty of activity still shows up when I have the magnitudes lower than 3 checked via the USGS KML file on Google Earth. Unchecking those and filtering out up to 3, and yeah it looks pretty quiet.

You are exactly right, Paul! I always filter lower than 2.0. I guess I should have called the thread " where have all the 2.1+ California earthquakes gone?"

Originally posted by vampira309
Wasn't sure in which forum to post...hope this is the right place.

I keep an eye on earthquakes as I live in the Pacific northwest. I have a new phone and reinstalled my earthquake app on Tuesday. I thought there was something wrong with the app or that USGS was offline as there were no earthquakes in California. Here we are at Monday and STILL NO QUAKES.

I know from having monitored quakes for the last few years years that California has many QUAKES all the time. Obviously none of them are very strong but there are always SOME QUAKES.....so what's going on?

I don't want to be all doomy but it seems really unusual and it makes me feel uneasy....

Well now you just jinxed it