The July 1, 1911 earthquake
M6.5Near Morgan Hill, California
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake 6.2 miles deep, centred in Santa Clara County. The 30th strongest in California’s record since 1900, and the strongest within 50 miles in the catalogue, which runs from 1900.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.5
- moment magnitude (mw)
- Depth
- 6.2 mi
- 10.0 km below the surface
- Local time
- Saturday, July 1, 1911
- 13:59 PST; 21:59 UTC
- In California’s record
- 30th
- strongest of 97,065 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event iscgem16958150 (“Near Morgan Hill, 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
- Santa Clara CountyCA · inside
- Santa Cruz CountyCA · 7.8 mi
- San Benito CountyCA · 12.0 mi
- Stanislaus CountyCA · 13.2 mi
- Monterey CountyCA · 13.7 mi
- Merced CountyCA · 21.6 mi
- San Joaquin CountyCA · 27.2 mi
- Alameda CountyCA · 27.3 mi
- San Mateo CountyCA · 29.3 mi
- Contra Costa CountyCA · 45.6 mi
- Fresno CountyCA · 47.2 mi
Cities, largest first
- San JoseCA · 16.1 mi
- FremontCA · 31.3 mi
- SalinasCA · 29.1 mi
- HaywardCA · 43.9 mi
- SunnyvaleCA · 28.6 mi
- Santa ClaraCA · 25.3 mi
- San MateoCA · 48.3 mi
- TracyCA · 43.8 mi
- San RamonCA · 48.0 mi
- Mountain ViewCA · 31.5 mi
- LivermoreCA · 40.4 mi
- Redwood CityCA · 42.2 mi
Earthquakes around the epicentre
2,688 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
- August 2, 1903M6.2
- June 11, 1903M6.1
- March 10, 1910M5.8
- December 31, 1910M5.7
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog. Local time is the time zone of the county nearest the epicentre. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them.