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The USGS Feed as Sealed on 2026-07-20

190 events, exactly as the feed presented them at the moment we read it. Values on this page are what USGS asserted on this date — some of them have since been revised, and this page deliberately does not follow those revisions.

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What this archive is, exactly. The USGS all_day feed holds the last 24 hours and is overwritten in place. We seal one dated copy of it per day. An event that appeared in the feed and was superseded between two of our seals is not in this archive at all. These pages are a record of what USGS asserted at each seal — they are not a complete catalogue of earthquakes, and nothing here should be read as one.

No event in this seal had appeared in an earlier one. Every event here was first seen on this date.

Review status as sealed: automatic 109, reviewed 81. An automatic value is a machine solution USGS may still revise; a reviewed value has had a human look at it. Which one you are reading matters more than the magnitude itself.

By magnitude

MagnitudeEvents
Below M1.042
M1.0 – M1.978
M2.0 – M2.935
M3.0 – M3.95
M4.0 – M4.925
M5.0 and above5
No magnitude published0

30 of 190 events in this seal were sealed at or above M3.5 — the magnitude Texas Railroad Commission seismic-response conditions are written around. That is a count of what the feed said, not a determination about any permit, operator or well.

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Largest events in this seal

MagnitudePlace, as publishedReview statusSeal
M5.60208 km SW of Port McNeill, Canadareviewed2026-07-20
M5.5081 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexicoreviewed2026-07-20
M5.2027 km S of Javānrūd, Iranreviewed2026-07-20
M5.2022 km NNW of Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobagoreviewed2026-07-20
M5.1083 km W of Tobelo, Indonesiareviewed2026-07-20
M4.9027 km S of Javānrūd, Iranreviewed2026-07-20
M4.9048 km WSW of Brisas Barra de Suchiate, Mexicoreviewed2026-07-20
M4.8014 km NE of Güiria, Venezuelareviewed2026-07-20
M4.8051 km NNE of Port-Olry, Vanuatureviewed2026-07-20
M4.70168 km WSW of San Antonio, Chilereviewed2026-07-20
M4.70173 km W of Fakfak, Indonesiareviewed2026-07-20
M4.7081 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexicoreviewed2026-07-20
M4.60203 km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russiareviewed2026-07-20
M4.603 km NE of Jordán, Colombiareviewed2026-07-20
M4.5066 km SW of Brisas Barra de Suchiate, Mexicoreviewed2026-07-20
M4.50south of the Kermadec Islandsreviewed2026-07-20
M4.5077 km NNW of Pārūn, Afghanistanreviewed2026-07-20
M4.5070 km SW of Puerto Madero, Mexicoreviewed2026-07-20
M4.4042 km NNW of Te Anau, New Zealandreviewed2026-07-20
M4.4059 km WSW of Aquiles Serdán, Mexicoreviewed2026-07-20

Where they were, as USGS wrote it

State or territoryEvents
California69
Alaska39
Texas19
Hawaii11
New Mexico9
Puerto Rico3
Nevada2
Oklahoma2
Wyoming2
Arkansas1
Utah1
the U.S. Virgin Islands1
Washington1

30 of 190 events in this seal carry a place tail we do not map to a US state — most of them are outside the US. They are counted here and left unassigned rather than guessed at.

How this seal was collected

SealWe read atSource last modifiedHTTPSource
2026-07-202026-07-20T13:44:16+00:00Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:44:10 GMT200source file
Days we did not seal. 45 seals span 47 calendar days, so these days inside the span have no sealed copy: 2026-07-04, 2026-07-15. A missing day means we did not read the feed. It does not mean nothing happened, and those dates return a 404 here rather than a page reading zero.
One seal is wider than the others. These dates were collected more than once: 2026-07-16 (2 runs, 00:48 and 13:42 UTC). A day with two runs covers more than 24 source-hours, so its event count is larger for a collection reason and not a seismic one. Do not read it as a busy day.

Compiled from dated copies of the U.S. Geological Survey's public all_day realtime feed (a work of the US government, in the public domain). Values are reproduced exactly as USGS published them on the date shown and may since have been revised; USGS is the authority on the current value of any event. These pages are provided for informational purposes only, carry no warranty of accuracy or completeness, and are not an earthquake warning, a safety notice, or engineering advice. Always verify against the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program before relying on any figure.

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