The May 22, 1910 earthquake
M5.3Near Salt Lake City, Utah
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake, centred in Salt Lake County. The 12th strongest in Utah’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
- Sunday, May 22, 1910
- 07:28 MST; 14:28 UTC
- In Utah’s record
- 12th
- strongest of 2,224 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event ushis507 (“Near Salt Lake City, Utah”). 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
- Salt Lake CountyUT · inside
- Davis CountyUT · 9.2 mi
- Summit CountyUT · 9.5 mi
- Morgan CountyUT · 10.8 mi
- Utah CountyUT · 12.0 mi
- Wasatch CountyUT · 13.7 mi
- Tooele CountyUT · 20.8 mi
- Weber CountyUT · 30.4 mi
- Rich CountyUT · 41.5 mi
- Uinta CountyWY · 44.4 mi
- Box Elder CountyUT · 44.6 mi
- Cache CountyUT · 46.4 mi
- Duchesne CountyUT · 46.9 mi
Cities, largest first
- Salt Lake CityUT · 8.7 mi
- West Valley CityUT · 11.1 mi
- West JordanUT · 12.5 mi
- ProvoUT · 32.5 mi
- LehiUT · 19.9 mi
- OremUT · 28.3 mi
- SandyUT · 9.2 mi
- OgdenUT · 37.5 mi
- South JordanUT · 14.2 mi
- LaytonUT · 27.4 mi
- Eagle MountainUT · 28.9 mi
- MillcreekUT · 1.7 mi
Earthquakes around the epicentre
72 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.