The April 10, 1910 earthquake
M5.0Near Lake Elsinore, California
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake, centred in Riverside County. The 451st strongest in California’s record since 1900, and the strongest within 50 miles since a magnitude 5.3 on September 19, 1907.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.0
- local magnitude (ml)
- Depth
- —
- Not recorded
- Local time
- Sunday, April 10, 1910
- 23:57 PST; 07:57 UTC on Apr 11, 1910
- In California’s record
- 451st
- strongest of 97,065 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event ushis501 (“Near Lake Elsinore, 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
- Riverside CountyCA · inside
- Orange CountyCA · 2.9 mi
- San Diego CountyCA · 13.6 mi
- San Bernardino CountyCA · 19.6 mi
- Los Angeles CountyCA · 27.8 mi
Cities, largest first
- Long BeachCA · 44.5 mi
- AnaheimCA · 23.2 mi
- RiversideCA · 16.5 mi
- IrvineCA · 21.4 mi
- Santa AnaCA · 27.9 mi
- San BernardinoCA · 31.1 mi
- FontanaCA · 28.5 mi
- Moreno ValleyCA · 19.0 mi
- Huntington BeachCA · 34.7 mi
- OntarioCA · 26.1 mi
- Rancho CucamongaCA · 31.2 mi
- OceansideCA · 33.3 mi
Earthquakes around the epicentre
1,269 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or more within 50 miles of this epicentre since 1973.
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog. Local time is the time zone of the county nearest the epicentre. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them.