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The USGS Feed as Sealed on 2026-08-05

214 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.

← 2026-08-04 · 2026-08-06 →

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 An event that appeared in the feed and was superseded between two of our seals is not in this archive at all.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 122, automatic 92. 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 M1.048
M1.0 – M1.998
M2.0 – M2.930
M3.0 – M3.910
M4.0 – M4.919
M5.0 and above9
No magnitude published0

33 of 214 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
M6.3032 km SW of Sarangani, Philippinesreviewed2026-08-05
M6.30south of the Kermadec Islandsreviewed2026-08-05
M5.70127 km NW of Ternate, Indonesiareviewed2026-08-05
M5.2031 km S of Sarangani, Philippinesreviewed2026-08-05
M5.20Auckland Islands, New Zealand regionreviewed2026-08-05
M5.10south of Tongareviewed2026-08-05
M5.10238 km SSW of Río Grande, Panamareviewed2026-08-05
M5.1046 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippinesreviewed2026-08-05
M5.0060 km NNE of Shi Yomi, Indiareviewed2026-08-05
M4.90Banda Seareviewed2026-08-05
M4.9045 km SW of Sarangani, Philippinesreviewed2026-08-05
M4.9054 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippinesreviewed2026-08-05
M4.8043 km ESE of Koseda, Japanreviewed2026-08-05
M4.8055 km WSW of Monywa, Burma (Myanmar)reviewed2026-08-05
M4.8064 km SW of Sarangani, Philippinesreviewed2026-08-05
M4.8045 km SSW of Sarangani, Philippinesreviewed2026-08-05
M4.70Fiji regionreviewed2026-08-05
M4.6079 km E of Onagawa Chō, Japanreviewed2026-08-05
M4.60South Sandwich Islands regionreviewed2026-08-05
M4.6036 km ESE of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russiareviewed2026-08-05

Where they were, as USGS wrote it

State or territoryEvents
California85
Alaska43
Texas14
Hawaii8
New Mexico7
Puerto Rico6
Utah6
Washington6
Nevada4
the U.S. Virgin Islands4
Oklahoma3

28 of 214 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
2026-08-052026-08-05T13:41:39+00:00Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:41:34 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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