The September 19, 1907 earthquake
M5.3Near San Bernardino, California
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake, centred in San Bernardino County. The 269th strongest in California’s record since 1900, and the strongest within 50 miles in the catalogue, which runs from 1900.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.3
- moment magnitude (mw)
- Depth
- —
- Not recorded
- Local time
- Thursday, September 19, 1907
- 17:54 PST; 01:54 UTC on Sep 20, 1907
- In California’s record
- 269th
- strongest of 97,065 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event ushis468 (“Near San Bernardino, California”). The USGS event page carries the ShakeMap, felt reports and the official summary.
Counties and cities within 50 miles
Distance from the epicentre to each county boundary (zero when inside) and to each city centre.
Counties
- San Bernardino CountyCA · inside
- Riverside CountyCA · 14.5 mi
- Los Angeles CountyCA · 31.8 mi
- Orange CountyCA · 39.5 mi
Cities, largest first
- AnaheimCA · 44.6 mi
- RiversideCA · 24.7 mi
- San BernardinoCA · 11.8 mi
- FontanaCA · 21.7 mi
- Moreno ValleyCA · 20.1 mi
- OntarioCA · 31.1 mi
- Rancho CucamongaCA · 27.1 mi
- CoronaCA · 35.4 mi
- PomonaCA · 39.1 mi
- VictorvilleCA · 26.9 mi
- MenifeeCA · 35.6 mi
- TemeculaCA · 48.9 mi
Earthquakes around the epicentre
2,615 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or more within 50 miles of this epicentre since 1973.
No earlier earthquake of magnitude 5 or more within 50 miles in the catalogue since 1900.
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog. Local time is the time zone of the county nearest the epicentre. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them.