Ariel view of the Salton Sea, taken from Joshua Tree National Park, looking toward the south-southwest. Credit: Dicklyon.
Salton Sea Swarm quiets down
By Alka Tripathy-Lang
August 12, 2020
On Sunday, August 9, a magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck North Carolina, surprising the east coast of the United States. Not to be left out, early Monday morning, southern California hosted an earthquake swarm of its own. These mostly small temblors began with a magnitude-3.2 earthquake at 6:33 a.m., with the largest magnitude-4.6 event reported at 8:56 a.m. None of these quakes nucleated along the San Andreas Fault.
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