Magnitude 4.4 quake near San Clemente, California

Last updated: 2018-03-26 17:50:59 UTC

The Anza group at the University of California San Diego operates a broadband seismograph network consisting of 13 (+ 2) three component broadband seismograph stations centered near Anza Californa (see map).

On Thursday, August 16th, 2001 at 11:04:32.000 PDT we recorded an earthquake (preliminary ml 4.4) located off the coast of San Clemente Island. At 15:06:27.000 PDT we recorded a second quake (preliminary ml 4.2) located in the same area. These events were felt in the San Diego area. There have been no reports of damage.

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Initial source parameters for the recent event and aftershocks are shown below. The epicentral distance (distance separating the epicenter and the core of the recording network) for Anza is ~0.982 degrees (109 km). The earthquake was approximately 60 miles west of station SOL (Mount Soledad, San Diego).
 
This map shows the earthquakes (red circles). Anza network stations are yellow triangles. The station code for our station on Mount Soledad in San Diego is SOL.

Latitude

Longitude

Origin time (UTC)

Depth

ml

Author

32.7700 -118.23 8/16/2001 (228) 22:06:27.000 0.0 4.2* SCEC
32.730 -118.390 8/16/2001 (228) 20:36:59.000 31.4 3.1* SCEC
32.780 -118.210 8/16/2001 (228) 20:04:19.632 23.1 4.5* UCSD
32.740 -118.270 8/16/2001 (228) 18:04:32.000 0.0 4.4* SCEC

*note that the location and magnitude determined for these events is preliminary and is subject to change upon further review of seismic data.

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Of local interest:
We operate a broadband station on Mt. Soledad. At 8/16/2001 (228) 15:06:44.490 PDT station SOL recorded the P wave from the 4.2ml event.

Here is a view of that event as picked by our analyst. The pink "P" indicates a P wave arrival, the "S" indicates an S wave arrival. The white lines with labels "Pg/Pn/Pb/Sg/SN/SB" indicate the predicted arrival times based on a travel time model. Each vertical dotted line devides the window into 5 second bins. The window displays ~45 seconds of data.

View a larger image showing the waveforms recorded at Mt. Soledad.

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URL: http://eqinfo.ucsd.edu/special_events/2001/228/a/index.php [Last updated: 2018-03-26 17:50:59 UTC]