Individual Event Report
| Event #285 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs |
| Meteorite Meteorite. Holden (1898) says: "1895. June 15; Port Townsend, Washington, June 16. [Chimacum, a small farming center 4 miles from here, was terribly shaken last night at 8 o'clock by the falling of a huge meteor, which burst with a loud noise, and after causing a small-sized cyclone of several minutes duration, buried itself deep in the muddy bottom of a neighboring lagoon. The meteor struck with force enough to break crockery in farmhouses 3 miles away and created great terror among the residents. Ten hours after the occurrence the waters of the lagoon were still bubbling and seething, and were found to be hot. Systematic dragging of the lagoon failed to bring up any traces of the celestial messenger.__S. F. Examiner, June 17, 1895.] " |
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| HOLD2 - 1911 |
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Underlying Source Material
| Source ID |
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| 1911 |
Holden, E.S., 1898, A Catalog of Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast 1769-1897, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1087 |
1898 |
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| Transcription: 1895. June 15; Port Townsend, Washington, June 16. [Chimacum, a small farming center 4 miles from here, was terribly shaken last night at 8 o'clock by the falling of a huge meteor, which burst with a loud noise, and after causing a small-sized cyclone of several minutes duration, buried itself deep in the muddy bottom of a neighboring lagoon. The meteor struck with force enough to break crockery in farmhouses 3 miles away and created great terror among the residents. Ten hours after the occurrence the waters of the lagoon were still bubbling and seething, and were found to be hot. Systematic dragging of the lagoon failed to bring up any traces of the celestial messenger.__S. F. Examiner, June 17, 1895.] |
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| Source ID |
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Pub Details |
| 2555 |
Port Townsend Morning Leader |
1895 |
June 20, 1895- Transcript provided by Robert Forbes |
Transcription: OUR METEOR ON THE ROAD - The following is a Spokane paper's account of the falling of a meteor recently near Chimacum, the true account of which appeared in the Morning Leader.
Port Townsend, June 16. - Last night at 8 o'clock, Chimacum, a small farming center four miles from here, experienced a terrific explosion and jar, the result of the falling of a 5,000 pound meteor which burst with a loud noise at the height of a hundred yards, and after causing a small sized cyclone of several minutes duration, buried itself deep in the muddy waters of a neighboring lagoon. The meteor struck the bottom with force enough to break crockery in farmhouses three miles away, creating terror among the residents, who believed that the end of the world had come. Ten hours after the occurrence the waters of the lagoom were still bubbling and seething, and were found to be hot enough to readily cook an egg. A systematic dragging of the lagoon failed to bring up any trace of the celestial messenger, which is believed to have buried itself in the earth. |
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| Source ID |
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| 272 |
Bradford, Donald C., 1935, Seismic History of the Puget Sound Basin, BSSA, V. 25, No. 2, pp. 138-153 |
1935 |
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| Transcription: 1895 June 15; Port Townsend, June 16. Chimacum, a small farming center four miles from here, was terribly shaken last night at 8 o'clock by the falling of a huge meteor, which burst with a loud noise, and after causing a small-sized cyclone of several minutes' duration, buried itself deep in the muddy bottom of a neighboring lagoon. The meteor struck with force enough to break crockery in farmhouses three miles away and created great terror among the residents. Ten hours after the occurrence the waters of the lagoon were still bubbling and seething, and were found to be hot. Systematic dragging of the lagoon failed to bring up any traces of the celestial messenger (San Francisco Examiner, June 17, 1895). |
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