The April 3, 1926 earthquake
M5.5near Twentynine Palms, California
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake, centred in Riverside County. The 186th strongest in California’s record since 1900, and the strongest within 50 miles in the catalogue, which runs from 1900.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.5
- local magnitude (ml)
- Depth
- —
- Not recorded
- Local time
- Saturday, April 3, 1926
- 12:09 PST; 20:09 UTC
- In California’s record
- 186th
- strongest of 97,065 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event ushis738 (“15 km SSE of Twentynine Palms, 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
- San Bernardino CountyCA · 39.2 mi
- San Diego CountyCA · 40.0 mi
- Imperial CountyCA · 40.0 mi
Cities, largest first
- IndioCA · 23.0 mi
- Palm DesertCA · 27.7 mi
- Cathedral CityCA · 28.9 mi
- CoachellaCA · 22.9 mi
- Palm SpringsCA · 33.7 mi
- La QuintaCA · 29.3 mi
- Desert Hot SpringsCA · 31.2 mi
- Twentynine PalmsCA · 10.9 mi
- Yucca ValleyCA · 25.6 mi
- Rancho MirageCA · 29.6 mi
Earthquakes around the epicentre
2,396 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.