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California Earthquake History

Since April 30, 1900, the USGS has recorded 1,665 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or greater in California, 107 of them magnitude 6 or above. The strongest was M 7.9.

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Strongest in California

All recorded earthquakes

M 4.5 mlJune 26, 2000
14km WNW of Ludlow, CA · depth 3 km
M 4.5 mlJune 14, 2000
7km NE of Imperial, CA · depth 10 km
M 4.5 mwMay 8, 2000
45 km SW of Ferndale, California · depth 4 km
M 5.7 mwMarch 16, 2000
85 km WSW of Ferndale, California · depth 5 km
M 4.6 mwJanuary 11, 2000
6 km N of Geyserville, California · depth 6 km
M 5.4 mwrJanuary 8, 2000
189 km W of Ferndale, California · depth 25 km
M 4.8 mwDecember 26, 1999
34 km SW of Scotia, California · depth 23 km
M 4.6 mwNovember 22, 1999
76 km WSW of Ferndale, California · depth 5 km
M 4.6 mlOctober 25, 1999
14km SSW of Ludlow, CA · depth -1 km
M 5.0 mwOctober 22, 1999
28km NW of Ludlow, California · depth -0 km
M 4.5 mwOctober 21, 1999
27km NW of Ludlow, California · depth 3 km
M 5.0 mwOctober 21, 1999
27km NW of Ludlow, California · depth 0 km
M 4.6 mlOctober 18, 1999
26km NNW of Twentynine Palms, CA · depth -1 km
M 4.5 mlOctober 16, 1999
18km W of Ludlow, CA · depth 5 km
M 4.5 mlOctober 16, 1999
11km WSW of Ludlow, CA · depth -1 km
M 4.6 mlOctober 16, 1999
12km WSW of Ludlow, CA · depth 0 km
M 4.6 mwOctober 16, 1999
33km N of Joshua Tree, CA · depth -1 km
M 5.4 mwOctober 16, 1999
32km SSW of Ludlow, California · depth 1 km
M 4.6 mlOctober 16, 1999
19km WNW of Ludlow, CA · depth 5 km
M 4.5 mhOctober 16, 1999
22km SSW of Ludlow, CA · depth -1 km
M 4.8 mlOctober 16, 1999
26km NNW of Twentynine Palms, CA · depth -1 km
M 4.7 mlOctober 16, 1999
17km W of Ludlow, CA · depth 1 km
M 5.6 mbOctober 16, 1999
7km ENE of Running Springs, CA · depth 6 km
M 5.8 mlOctober 16, 1999
13km WSW of Ludlow, CA · depth 14 km
M 5.0 mlOctober 16, 1999
25km S of Ludlow, CA · depth 5 km
M 4.8 mlOctober 16, 1999
32km SSW of Ludlow, CA · depth -1 km
M 4.7 mhOctober 16, 1999
13km W of Niland, California · depth 6 km
M 7.1 mwOctober 16, 1999
The 1999 Hector Mine, California Earthquake · depth 14 km
M 4.6 mwAugust 18, 1999
0 km S of Bolinas, California · depth 8 km
M 4.8 mbAugust 8, 1999
258 km W of Ferndale, California · depth 10 km
M 4.6 mwJuly 24, 1999
75 km WSW of Ferndale, California · depth 6 km
M 4.7 mwMay 15, 1999
11 km WSW of Aspen Springs, California · depth 5 km
M 5.5 mwMay 15, 1999
9 km WSW of Aspen Springs, California · depth 3 km
M 4.9 mlMay 14, 1999
8km SE of Yucca Valley, California · depth 1 km
M 4.5 mbFebruary 28, 1999
256 km W of Ferndale, California · depth 10 km
M 4.7 mwFebruary 15, 1999
34 km SW of Scotia, California · depth 21 km
M 5.4 mwNovember 27, 1998
87 km W of Ferndale, California · depth 4 km
M 4.6 mlNovember 26, 1998
5km NNW of Redding, CA · depth 25 km
M 5.1 mwNovember 26, 1998
7km NW of Redding, CA · depth 25 km
M 4.8 mwOctober 30, 1998
4 km N of Tahoe Vista, California · depth 1 km

Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program. Older and smaller earthquakes are under-counted relative to recent decades as instrumentation improved. A record of past shaking is not a forecast. See About the Data.