Before that M5.7, there was one on January 1857 'near the city of Oroville' that approached M6 and the other one between M5 and M6 in February 1940, 40 miles to the north.

And that accounts for all of 175 years of white man's history of California. So technically, Anonymous Coward is correct. Any earthquakes occurring before that in the last 12,000 years didn't happen near Oroville because it didn't exist yet.

Native American oral history accounts of gigantic quakes in the region before then were probably imaginary. Peyote and 'shroom induced, I'm guessing. Besides, not ONE Indian dam was ever known to have collapsed in California. So, go figure: no earthquakes.