Individual Event Report
| Event #137 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs |
Felt in Victoria. " The force of the shock and accompanying noise and clatter woke nearly everyone who chanced to be asleep at the time. Houses rooked, crockery rattled, and doors and windows shook violently. In some houses crockery was thrown from the shelves and broken. In Langley & Co.'s drug store a number of glass chimnies were shaken from the shelves and smashed. We have heard of no damage to persons or dwellings. From New Westminster we hear that the shock was not felt there."
An account from the Seattle "Weekly Pacific Tribune" indicates that this event was not felt elsewhere. |
| 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 |
| 1877 |
4 |
4 |
5 |
38 |
A |
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Victoria |
B.C. |
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| N-WPP - 2492 |
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N-WPP - 2492 |
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Underlying Source Material
| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 2492 |
Washington Public Power Supply System, Preliminary
Safety Analysis Report, Ammendment 23,
WPPSS Nuclear Project No. 1, 1300 MW Nuclear Power Plant, Vol. 2A. |
1977 |
Tables 2R-E18 and 2R-E14D. Victoria Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., April 5, 1877 |
Transcription: April 4, 1877
Victoria Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., April 5, 1877
"At about 4 o'clock yesterday morning a slight tremor of Mother
Earth was felt by several persons who happened to be out of bed at the
time. But the motion was so slight as to cause some doubt as to its
real character. At 22 minutes to six o'clock-one hour and 38 minutes
later on-there was a violent and unmistakable disturbance of the sublunary
sphere. The shock seemed to travel from east to west. -It was accompanied
by a loud rolling sound as if of a heavy cart being driven rapidly
through the streets, and ended with a bang! like the report of a cannon
fired a mile or two away. The force of the shock and accompanying noise
and clatter woke nearly everyone who chanced to be asleep at the time.
Houses rooked, crockery rattled, and doors and windows shook violently.
In some houses crockery was thrown from the shelves and broken. In
Langley & Co.'s drug store a number of glass chimnies were shaken from
the shelves and smashed. We have heard of no damage to persons or
dwellings. From New Westminster we hear that the shock was not felt
there."
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 6055 |
Weekly Pacific Tribune |
1877 |
Apr. 6, Friday, A3916, p3 c2 |
| Transcription: EARTHQUAKE AT VICTORIA. A violent shock of an earthquake occurred at Victoria at half past 5 this morning, waking people up, turning them out of doors, and frightening them almost out of their senses. We had no intimation of such a shock being experienced here, and are led to believe that it was confined to the limits of the island on which our Provincial neighbor is situated. |
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