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M2.0 – M2.9 Events in California

312 events in the M2.0 – M2.9 range whose USGS place string ends in California, across 45 of our daily seals.

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 An event that appeared in the feed and was superseded between two of our seals is not in this archive at all.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 264, reviewed 48. 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 312 events in California 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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Largest in this range

MagnitudePlace, as publishedReview statusSeal
M2.9914 km S of New Idria, CAautomatic2026-07-13
M2.989 km W of Palomar Observatory, CAreviewed2026-08-01
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
M2.9512 km ESE of Gilroy, CAautomatic2026-07-06
M2.9411 km ESE of Gilroy, CAautomatic2026-08-01
M2.922 km SSE of Frazier Park, CAreviewed2026-07-13
M2.8810 km SW of Manton, CAautomatic2026-06-24
M2.8718 km W of Petrolia, CAautomatic2026-06-29
M2.8467 km W of Petrolia, CAautomatic2026-06-26
M2.8319 km NNE of Indio, CAreviewed2026-06-27
M2.829 km N of Redwood Valley, CAautomatic2026-06-25
M2.817 km S of Brawley, CAautomatic2026-07-23
M2.8110 km NNW of Redwood Valley, CAautomatic2026-06-25
M2.813 km ENE of The Geysers, CAautomatic2026-07-28
M2.8022 km NW of Petrolia, CAautomatic2026-07-14
M2.8010 km ESE of Gilroy, CAautomatic2026-07-31
M2.8054 km W of Petrolia, CAautomatic2026-08-06
M2.796 km NE of San Simeon, CAautomatic2026-08-05

All magnitudes in California · M2.0 – M2.9 worldwide.

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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