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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 #497 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs                                           
The monthly weather reveiw gives this information: "A slight earthquake which shook eastern Oregon, flooded part of the Baker County golf links with a spring which burst forth within a few hundred yards of a mineral spring. Although the water in the mineral spring is hot , the spring flows ice cold. (Internat. News. Ser.)." Berg and Baker assigned MM Intensity III to this. No newspapers have been checked.
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
1916  28          44.77  117.83        Baker  OR  III  MM       
MWR - 2244 WWC - 1814 - - BB - 1354 -

Underlying Source Material
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
391  Byerly, Perry, 1952, Pacific Coast Earthquakes, Condon Lecture, pp. 33-38  1952  U.W. Library, N979 B991p, Special Collections) 
Transcription: 1916, May 28 Near Baker. Slight.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1814  Woodward Clyde Consultants, unpublished  1981  Woodward-Clyde Consultants (1981), Historical Catalog (1841-1980) for the Pacific Northwest Region, unpublished catalog prepared for the Washington Public Power Supply System. Copy provided to UW in 1993. 
Transcription: 19160528 44779-117833W III BB 3 01
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
2244  Monthly Weather Review  1916  V. 44, p. 304 
Transcription: Baker, Oreg., May 28, 1916.

A slight earthquake which shook eastern Oregon, flooded part of the Baker County golf links with a spring which burst forth within a few hundred yards of a mineral spring. Although the water in the mineral spring is hot , the spring flows ice cold. (Internat. News. Ser.)
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
536  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: 1916 May 28. Near Baker. Slight.-MWR, 44, 304.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
627  Reid, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park     
Transcription: Baker 28 May, 1916 44 degrees 48' N; 117 degrees 50' W intensity- slight -Am Ref; Gonz Univ Nothing ?
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1354  Berg and Baker, 1963, Oregon Earthquakes, 1841 through 1958, BSSA, V. 53, No. 1, pp. 95-108  1963   
Transcription: 1916 - - May 28 - near Baker III 10
 


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