String of earthquakes rattles Southern California. Are they telling us something bigger?

[Zorro]

Southern California was recently rattled by several small earthquakes. They produced minor shaking but nonetheless left psychological aftershocks in a region whose seismic vulnerabilities are matched by our willingness to put the dangers out of our minds.

For many, it all added to one question: Is this the beginning of something bigger?

First, a magnitude 3.6 earthquake in the Ojai Valley sent weak shaking from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles on May 31. Then came two small quakes under the eastern L.A. neighborhood of El Sereno, the most powerful a 3.4. Finally, a trio of tremors hit the Costa Mesa-Newport Beach border, topping out at a magnitude 3.6 Thursday.

Having half a dozen earthquakes with a magnitude over 2.5 in a week, hitting three distinct parts of Southern California, all in highly populated areas, is not a common occurrence.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-10/string-of-southern-california-earthquakes-are-they-warning-of-something-bigger

[BComplex]

1. Better not be anything big coming! My family is all out there.

And I totally LOVE California. There's no other place on earth quite like it.

[Arne]

2. I would hope that the weaker shakes

relieve pressures precluding something worse.

[BComplex]

3. I hope so too! And we have a bunch of awesome DUers out there in California!

I'm hoping all the dangerous pressures are released -- geologically and politically and personally!

[PufPuf23]

4. Just went to the USGS earthquake map and there was a 2.9 less than 20 miles from my home

(that did not feel) 1/2 hour ago. Was most recent over 2.5 but now one in Japan is latest.

Located in northeastern Humboldt County (map at link shows as on west edge of Trinity Alp Wilderness)

31 km E of Willow Creek, CA
2024-06-10 14:58:36 (UTC-07:00)
26.6 km

Have two friends from high school (in late 60s East SF Bay) enroute from Berkeley (one Oklahoma via Berkeley) today. They have motel reservations in Willow Creek and expect them to show up at my home with pizza and beer at 7 PM.

Tomorrow we will take a loop to Louse Camp which is close to the alleged Patterson Bigfoot film site taken in 1967, but mostly on ridge top roads for scenery. Nice pools of water at Louse Camp. My maternal grandfather Harvey Van Pelt is the Van of Van's Peak which is the upper end of Sasquatch Ridge on the Camp Creek - Bluff Creek divide. Pretty sure will see black bear, Roosevelt elk, and many blue grouse and part of forest has acres of rhododendron understory in bloom. Could see condors from the re-establishment program in nearby Redwood National Park.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=21.20746,-129.99023&extent=52.32191,-60.0293

[dickthegrouch]

5. The MyShake app for iOS and android is very useful

It’s world wide and has filters for minimum level and recency.
You can look at a list of all quakes above a 2.5.