Editing San Jacinto, California (section)

==Geography==
{{see also|List of earthquakes in California}}

San Jacinto is located at {{Coord|33|47|14|N|116|58|0|W|type:city}} (33.787119, −116.966672).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|26.1|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|25.7|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.4|sqmi|km2}}, or 1.59%, is water. The San Jacinto reservoir is an artificial lake used as a basin for the [[San Diego Aqueduct]], a branch of the [[Colorado River Aqueduct]], west of town.

Since local geological records have been kept, the city has been struck by two large earthquakes, one on Christmas Day in 1899, and the other on [[1918 San Jacinto earthquake|April 21, 1918]].