Earthquakes near San Jose, 2017–2026

NOAA lists one tsunami from elsewhere that reached the coast within 60 mi of San Jose with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 3.79 m, on January 15, 2022.

• October 25, 2022Earthquake · M 5.115km ESE of Alum Rock, CAUSGS
• January 15, 2022Tsunami · 3.79 m hereTonga IslandsNOAA NCEI
• October 15, 2019Earthquake · M 4.717km SSE of Tres Pinos, CAUSGS

• An event counts for San Jose when it began within 60 mi of its centre, or 120 mi for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
• USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
• NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
• Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
• A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
• Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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