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Cascadia Historic Earthquake Catalog, 1793-1929
Covering Washington, Oregon and Southern British Columbia

Provided by: The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
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Individual Event Report
Event #59 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs                                           
This appears in several catalogs, Townley and Allen put it best: "1865 November 26. (?) at sea. Between San Francisco and Portland, an earthquake.- ,Mining and Scientific Press. [11, 376. It is not stated that this shock was felt in Oregon.]"
TIME LOCATION MAGNITUDE MAX. INTENSITY FELT AREA
YR MO DAY HR MIN AM/PM Time
Type
LAT(N) LON(W) DEP
(km)
MAG Mag
Type
Felt
Plc.
Felt
St.
Inten-
sity
Int.
Type
Felt
Area
Felt
Area
Int.
Felt
Area
Units
1865  11  26                    Offshore  OR           
HOLD1 - 438 - - - HOLD1 - 438 -

Underlying Source Material
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
560  Smith, W. D., 1919, Earthquakes in Oregon, BSSA, V. 9, n. 3, pp. 58-71  1919   
Transcription: 1865. November 26 (?); at sea. Between San Francisco and Portland, an earthquake.-Mining and Scientific Press.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
479  Townley, S.D. and M.W. Allen, 1939, Descriptive Catalog of earthquakes of the Pacific Coast of the United States 1769 to 1928, Chapter II, Earthquakes in Oregon--1846-1928, BSSA, V. 29, No. 1, pp. 253-258.  1939   
Transcription: 1865 November 26. (?) at sea. Between San Francisco and Portland, an earthquake.- ,Mining and Scientific Press. [11, 376. It is not stated that this shock was felt in Oregon.]
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
438  Holden, Edward S., 1887, List of Recorded Earthquakes in California, Lower California, Oregon, and Washington Territory  1887  Printed by Direction of the Regents of the University of California, Sacremento, California, 
Transcription: 1865. November 26; ? At sea, between S.F. and Portland, an earthquake.-Mining and Scientific Press.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1290  Berg and Baker, 1963, Oregon Earthquakes, 1841 through 1958, BSSA, V. 53, No. 1, pp. 95-108  1963   
Transcription: 1865 - - Nov 26 - At sea between San Francisco & Portland - 10
 


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