The October 24, 1926 earthquake
M5.5near Davenport, California
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake, centred in Santa Cruz County. The 186th strongest in California’s record since 1900, and the strongest within 50 miles since a magnitude 6.3 on October 22, 1926.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.5
- local magnitude (ml)
- Depth
- —
- Not recorded
- Local time
- Sunday, October 24, 1926
- 14:51 PST; 22:51 UTC
- In California’s record
- 186th
- strongest of 97,065 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event ushis752 (“1 km WNW of Davenport, 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 Cruz CountyCA · inside
- San Mateo CountyCA · 7.8 mi
- Santa Clara CountyCA · 14.4 mi
- Monterey CountyCA · 24.8 mi
- Alameda CountyCA · 32.2 mi
- San Benito CountyCA · 32.3 mi
- Stanislaus CountyCA · 44.5 mi
- San Francisco CountyCA · 49.2 mi
Cities, largest first
- San JoseCA · 29.0 mi
- FremontCA · 36.1 mi
- SalinasCA · 39.0 mi
- HaywardCA · 42.5 mi
- SunnyvaleCA · 27.4 mi
- Santa ClaraCA · 27.4 mi
- San MateoCA · 38.0 mi
- Daly CityCA · 49.4 mi
- Mountain ViewCA · 27.4 mi
- San LeandroCA · 47.5 mi
- Redwood CityCA · 34.4 mi
- MilpitasCA · 33.6 mi
Earthquakes around the epicentre
1,611 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
- July 1, 1911M6.5
- October 22, 1926M6.3
- October 22, 1926M6.3
- August 2, 1903M6.2
- June 11, 1903M6.1
- March 10, 1910M5.8
- December 31, 1910M5.7
- November 8, 1914M5.5
- October 5, 1920M5.2
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog. Local time is the time zone of the county nearest the epicentre. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them.