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The USGS Feed as Sealed on 2026-08-04

225 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 An event that appeared in the feed and was superseded between two of our seals is not in this archive at all.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: reviewed 126, automatic 99. 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 M1.036
M1.0 – M1.9111
M2.0 – M2.945
M3.0 – M3.917
M4.0 – M4.916
M5.0 and above0
No magnitude published0

22 of 225 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
M4.90204 km SE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russiareviewed2026-08-04
M4.7061 km S of Shikotan, Russiareviewed2026-08-04
M4.7064 km SSW of Midelt, Moroccoreviewed2026-08-04
M4.60112 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexicoreviewed2026-08-04
M4.50123 km E of Miyako, Japanreviewed2026-08-04
M4.4034 km ESE of Vallenar, Chilereviewed2026-08-04
M4.40South Sandwich Islands regionreviewed2026-08-04
M4.40south of the Fiji Islandsreviewed2026-08-04
M4.40227 km SSE of Shimoda, Japanreviewed2026-08-04
M4.3092 km WSW of Puerto Madero, Mexicoreviewed2026-08-04
M4.3094 km WSW of Aquiles Serdán, Mexicoreviewed2026-08-04
M4.1039 km SE of Ḩājjīābād, Iranreviewed2026-08-04
M4.10116 km NNE of Mīnāb, Iranreviewed2026-08-04
M4.00232 km ESE of Attu Station, Alaskareviewed2026-08-04
M4.00229 km ESE of Attu Station, Alaskareviewed2026-08-04
M4.00off the coast of Oregonreviewed2026-08-04
M3.80239 km ESE of Attu Station, Alaskareviewed2026-08-04
M3.6610 km NNE of Kettleman City, CAreviewed2026-08-04
M3.65107 km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republicreviewed2026-08-04
M3.50230 km ESE of Attu Station, Alaskareviewed2026-08-04

Where they were, as USGS wrote it

State or territoryEvents
California81
Alaska52
Texas21
Hawaii12
New Mexico12
Puerto Rico8
Nevada5
Oklahoma4
the U.S. Virgin Islands3
Utah2
Washington2
Idaho1
Missouri1
Montana1
Oregon1
Tennessee1

18 of 225 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
2026-08-042026-08-04T13:41:16+00:00Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:40:39 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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