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M2.0 – M2.9 in the Sealed USGS Record

1,674 events sealed in the M2.0 – M2.9 range, worldwide. The USGS all_day feed is global, so this page is global — framing it as a US figure would be a coverage claim in the wrong direction.

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 An event that appeared in the feed and was superseded between two of our seals is not in this archive at all.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.

Review status as sealed: automatic 992, reviewed 682. 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.

0 of 1,674 events in this range 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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Where they were, as USGS wrote it

State or territoryEvents
Alaska582
California312
Hawaii216
Puerto Rico200
Texas133
New Mexico60
Nevada55
Washington21
the U.S. Virgin Islands20
Utah10
Missouri6
Idaho5
Oklahoma5
Oregon5
Tennessee5
Arkansas3
Montana3
Wyoming3
South Carolina2
Alabama1
Colorado1
Illinois1
North Carolina1
Ohio1
Virginia1

22 of 1,674 events in this range carry a place tail outside our US map and are left unassigned.

Largest in this range

MagnitudePlace, as publishedReview statusSeal
M2.9916 km WNW of Progreso, B.C., MXreviewed2026-07-17
M2.9914 km S of New Idria, CAautomatic2026-07-13
M2.9946 km ESE of Beatty, Nevadareviewed2026-07-09
M2.9917 km NNW of Indian Springs, Nevadareviewed2026-07-12
M2.997 km SE of Espino, Puerto Ricoreviewed2026-07-05
M2.996 km WSW of Bennington, Idahoreviewed2026-07-22
M2.989 km W of Palomar Observatory, CAreviewed2026-08-01
M2.983 km SSW of Pāhala, Hawaiireviewed2026-07-21
M2.9819 km E of Naalehu, Hawaiireviewed2026-07-30
M2.9761 km NNE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islandsreviewed2026-07-10
M2.9611 km SSW of Ferndale, CAautomatic2026-07-13
M2.965 km ESE of Interlaken, CAautomatic2026-07-17
M2.9612 km ESE of Gilroy, CAautomatic2026-07-27
M2.9617 km SE of Silver Springs, Nevadareviewed2026-07-28
M2.9671 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Ricoreviewed2026-06-26
M2.9670 km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Ricoreviewed2026-07-24
M2.9512 km ESE of Gilroy, CAautomatic2026-07-06
M2.9550 km N of Hatillo, Puerto Ricoreviewed2026-06-24
M2.9558 km NE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islandsreviewed2026-07-28
M2.9411 km ESE of Gilroy, CAautomatic2026-08-01
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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