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Events USGS Classified as “quarry blast”

137 events sealed with this type value. The classification is USGS's own and is reproduced verbatim — we do not reclassify events, and we do not infer a cause for any of them.

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 An event that appeared in the feed and was superseded between two of our seals is not in this archive at all.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: reviewed 137. 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 M1.017
M1.0 – M1.9119
M2.0 – M2.91
M3.0 – M3.90
M4.0 – M4.90
M5.0 and above0
No magnitude published0

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Where they were, as USGS wrote it

State or territoryEvents
California78
Oklahoma49
Alaska2
Montana2
Utah1

Largest of this type

MagnitudePlace, as publishedReview statusSeal
M2.293 km N of Lilburn, Georgiareviewed2026-07-30
M1.805 km SE of Home Gardens, CAreviewed2026-07-21
M1.803 km SW of Clayton, CAreviewed2026-08-13
M1.774 km SE of Home Gardens, CAreviewed2026-07-25
M1.7110 km SE of Texanna, Oklahomareviewed2026-07-31
M1.704 km SE of Home Gardens, CAreviewed2026-07-03
M1.705 km NNW of Boron, CAreviewed2026-07-14
M1.693 km SW of Mill Creek, Oklahomareviewed2026-08-12
M1.684 km SE of Home Gardens, CAreviewed2026-08-27
M1.637 km SSE of Home Gardens, CAreviewed2026-08-21
M1.5844 km NNW of Los Algodones, B.C., MXreviewed2026-07-10
M1.5645 km NE of Holtville, CAreviewed2026-07-25
M1.547 km SSE of Home Gardens, CAreviewed2026-07-31
M1.547 km SSE of Home Gardens, CAreviewed2026-07-03
M1.5411 km W of Davis, Oklahomareviewed2026-09-02
M1.534 km SE of Owasso, Oklahomareviewed2026-07-29
M1.538 km W of Davis, Oklahomareviewed2026-08-06
M1.536 km ENE of Drumright, Oklahomareviewed2026-08-29
M1.518 km W of Davis, Oklahomareviewed2026-07-16
M1.506 km S of Mojave, CAreviewed2026-07-25
Days we did not seal. 68 seals span 76 calendar days, so these days inside the span have no sealed copy: 2026-07-04, 2026-07-15, 2026-08-14, 2026-08-15, 2026-08-16, 2026-08-17, 2026-08-22, 2026-08-23. 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), 2026-08-18 (2 runs, 05:41 and 23:15 UTC), 2026-08-24 (12 runs, 00:43 and 11:00 UTC), 2026-08-25 (11 runs, 02:00 and 22:09 UTC), 2026-08-26 (4 runs, 00:05 and 22:05 UTC), 2026-08-27 (4 runs, 00:05 and 22:09 UTC), 2026-08-28 (4 runs, 00:05 and 22:08 UTC), 2026-08-29 (4 runs, 00:08 and 22:05 UTC), 2026-08-30 (4 runs, 00:07 and 22:05 UTC), 2026-08-31 (4 runs, 00:05 and 22:08 UTC), 2026-09-01 (4 runs, 00:06 and 22:10 UTC), 2026-09-02 (4 runs, 00:05 and 22:05 UTC), 2026-09-03 (4 runs, 00:09 and 22:09 UTC), 2026-09-04 (4 runs, 00:07 and 22:08 UTC), 2026-09-05 (4 runs, 00:08 and 22:06 UTC), 2026-09-06 (3 runs, 00:09 and 05:43 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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