The May 15, 1910 earthquake
M6.0Lake Elsinore, California
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake, centred in Riverside County. The 66th strongest in California’s record since 1900, and the strongest within 50 miles in the catalogue, which runs from 1900.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.0
- local magnitude (ml)
- Depth
- —
- Not recorded
- Local time
- Sunday, May 15, 1910
- 07:47 PST; 15:47 UTC
- In California’s record
- 66th
- strongest of 97,065 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event ushis506 (“The 1910 Lake Elsinore, California Earthquake”). 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.
Earlier earthquakes of magnitude 5 or more within 50 miles, strongest first
- September 19, 1907M5.3
- April 10, 1910M5.0
- May 12, 1910M5.0
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog. Local time is the time zone of the county nearest the epicentre. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them.