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The email from USGS said 4.8, I was surprised it was so far off. They still have not sent a revision. Usually they are much better about this.

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That may have been for another, smaller quake (one of the larger aftershocks of yesterday's 6.4 event). It looks like there was a 4.6 aftershock which may have triggered the email (the email system is automated).

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/

I prefer the caltech site for fast no-nonsense page loads: Map: http://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/ List: http://scedc.caltech.edu/recent/Quakes/quakes0.html

back to 7.1

They must have just pushed a security patch.

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