The January 15, 1930 earthquake
M5.1near Big Bear Lake, California
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake, centred in San Bernardino County. The 382nd strongest in California’s record since 1900, and the strongest within 50 miles since a magnitude 5.2 on January 15, 1930.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.1
- as reported (uk)
- Depth
- —
- Not recorded
- Local time
- Wednesday, January 15, 1930
- 16:34 PST; 00:34 UTC on Jan 16, 1930
- In California’s record
- 382nd
- strongest of 97,065 since 1900
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, event ushis835 (“4 km SSE of Big Bear Lake, 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
- San Bernardino CountyCA · inside
- Riverside CountyCA · 11.6 mi
- Los Angeles CountyCA · 43.1 mi
- Orange CountyCA · 47.5 mi
Cities, largest first
- RiversideCA · 33.5 mi
- San BernardinoCA · 22.9 mi
- FontanaCA · 32.8 mi
- Moreno ValleyCA · 25.9 mi
- OntarioCA · 41.9 mi
- Rancho CucamongaCA · 38.4 mi
- CoronaCA · 44.7 mi
- VictorvilleCA · 34.4 mi
- MenifeeCA · 38.8 mi
- MurrietaCA · 46.4 mi
- Jurupa ValleyCA · 35.2 mi
- RialtoCA · 28.5 mi
Earthquakes around the epicentre
3,179 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
- April 21, 1918M6.7
- July 22, 1923M6.2
- May 15, 1910M6.0
- September 19, 1907M5.3
- January 15, 1930M5.2
- September 26, 1929M5.1
- May 12, 1910M5.0
- April 10, 1910M5.0
- June 6, 1918M5.0
USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog. Local time is the time zone of the county nearest the epicentre. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them.