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Real-Time Interactive Earthquake Map: Get to Know Your Local Faults | KQED

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The Hayward Fault is restless. On Monday evening (May 14), there was a 3.5 magnitude earthquake along the fault centered just east of Oakland. It comes just over four months after a 4.4 magnitude quake along the fault near Berkeley. The Hayward Fault runs through the East Bay from San Pablo Bay in t…

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Riverside County residents got a Christmas surprise of the most unpleasant kind in 1899.

At approximately 4:25 a.m. on Christmas morning, a severe seismic shock was felt, centered approximately 10 miles southeast of the city of San Jacinto. The earthquake, estimated to have been about a 6.5 on the Richter scale, was felt all the way to the California coast, as far north as Bakersfield, as far east as Seligman, Ariz., and as far south as the Mexico/California border.

According to an article in the San Francisco Call on Dec. 26, the quake consisted of short, convulsive jerks and was accompanied by a frightful roar which continued for some minutes after the shaking stopped. People in the towns of San Jacinto and Hemet reported that the quake lasted about 30 seconds. Aftershocks continued for weeks. On the day of the earthquake alone, over 30 aftershocks were felt.

San Jacinto suffered the most destruction. Every brick building on Main Street had extensive damage and fallen bricks littered the road. Most two-story brick buildings lost their second floors when the brick walls fell out from the shaking. Some frame buildings were crushed when bricks from adjacent buildings fell on them. Electric lines were down and one wall of the electric powerhouse fell. Many frame houses were shaken off their foundations.

One of the most important buildings in San Jacinto at that time was the county hospital. Great sections of its brick walls were thrown out from the building, rendering it uninhabitable. The 12 patients in the hospital at the time, as well as its employees, were miraculously unharmed. The county supervisors acted very quickly and by the end of January had purchased a site in Riverside for a new hospital, moving it permanently out of San Jacinto.

The neighboring city of Hemet also suffered significant damage. All but two of the brick chimneys in town were knocked down by the quake. The worst quake damage occurred at the Hemet Hotel. There, 20 guests awoke to falling bricks and the entire veranda on the west side of the building was torn off. The hotel was rendered uninhabitable.

Throughout the valley, damage could be seen from the quake. Every school but the high school suffered enough damage to delay the reopening of schools after the Christmas break. A fissure over 150 feet long opened up under a house near Hemet, damaging the home.

Amazingly, no one was killed in either Hemet or San Jacinto. Unfortunately, the Soboba Indian Reservation was located closer to the epicenter of the quake. There an adobe building collapsed and the falling bricks and wooden beams instantly killed six elderly women. Others suffered serious injuries, including broken limbs.

Farther from the epicenter, cities suffered much less damage. Riverside, Perris and Banning primarily saw a few chimneys topple, cracks appear in buildings, plaster shake off of walls, and bottles fall to the floor in area shops.

According to the San Bernardino Transcript, after the earthquake great clouds of dust were noticed in the San Jacinto Mountains by the forest patrol, who thought it might be smoke from a fire. When they arrived at the scene of the dense clouds, about 15 or 16 miles from San Jacinto, they found a great fissure, about 5 to 6 feet wide, and extending many feet into the depths of the earth.

If you have an idea for a future Back in the Day column about a local historic person, place, or event, contact Steve Lech and Kim Jarrell Johnson at backinthedaype@gmail.com.

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BACK IN THE DAY: Christmas quake struck in 1899

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Riverside County residents got a Christmas surprise of the most unpleasant kind in 1899. At approximately 4:25 a.m. on Christmas morning, a severe seismic shock was felt, centered approximately 10 miles southeast of the city of San Jacinto.

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TWO CALIFORNIA TOWNS WRECKED BY QUAKE.

Los Angeles, Cal., April 22. -- A general earthquake shock, felt throughout Southern California at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, took one life at a nearby resort, caused the serious injury of one woman in a mad rush from a down-town theater, broke large plate glass windows, shook down cornices and cut off communications with at least two small towns. Unverified reports from about these towns said there had been serious property damage and possible loss of life.
Hemet, about 25 miles east and south of Riverside, and San Jacinto, the next town north of Hemet on a branch line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, which serves both points, were reported to be virtually destroyed.
It was reported in San Bernardino late today that both telephone offices had been destroyed and the telephone companies said they were unable to get any response from that or nearby sections.
At San Bernardino the quake was said by old residents to be the worst of years. Scores of plate glass windows were broken, 100 feet of brick wall from one low building fell into the street and several other walls were cracked.
There was a panic at the ball grounds, where a game was in progress, and one man was hurt in the rush to escape. Another, running out of a theatre into the street, was struck by a passing automobile and seriously injured.
Riverside suffered a shock of similar intensity. Ornaments were shaken from the courthouse cornice and windows smashed.
At Banning the front of the Odd Fellows building fell out, striking two automobiles which had just been vacated by their passengers.
The tremor was first reported from Barstow at 3:30 p.m., and apparently moved east and south from that point. It became most severe in the Hemet and San Jacinto section and farther north about San Bernardino.
Coming on toward the coast, the tremor did slight damage at whittier and other intervening points and then struck Los Angeles at 3:22 p.m., there being two shocks. They were estimated at 10 seconds and 30 seconds each.
In the city, the earthquake broke a number of large plateglass windows in office buildings. There was almost a panic in the numerous theatres and picture houses and one woman, MRS. A. JACOBS, was struck on the head by an iron fire escape, lowered from above as she stepped from a theatre side entrance.
At Santa Monica, a seaside town near here, a crowd was on the Municipal pier, which swayed perilously, and in the rush to escape, FRANK E. DARBELL, a retired manufacturer of Los Angeles, was thrown down and trampled to death.
Several hundred pleasure seekers on the Redondo pier made a rush for land when the pier began to sway, and several were slightly hurt in the resulting crush.
At Long Beach several large office buildings were severely shaken and numerous windows were broken. There were several small panics in public meeting places, but it was reported that no one had been seriously hurt.
The earthquake apparently was not serious very far south, as reports from Imperial Valley points said it had not damaged any of the towns in that part of the state, although it reached there at 3:39 p.m.

TOWNS IN RUINS.
Los Angeles, Cal., April 22. -- More than one-third of the business district of San Jacinto and a smaller proportion of that of Hemet, both in Riverside county, about 70 miles east of here, were in ruins today. Scores of residences in the two towns were wrecked by a series of earthquakes which caused all of southern California to tremble, late yesterday afternoon.
The property damage is estimated at from $100,000 to $150,000 in the two places. Half a dozen other towns and cities, including Los Angeles, suffered minor damage, confined mainly to plateglass windows and shattered cornices.

Lowell Sun Massachusetts 1918-04-22

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Hemet, San Jacinto, CA Earthquake, Apr 1918

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TWO CALIFORNIA TOWNS WRECKED BY QUAKE. Los Angeles, Cal., April 22. -- A general earthquake shock, felt throughout Southern California at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, took one life at a nearby resort, caused the serious injury of one woman in a mad rush from a down-town theater, broke large plate glass windows, shook down cornices and cut off communications with at least two small towns.

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Understanding Earthquakes | National Geographic