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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 #205 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs                                           
Port Angeles - Townley and Allen state: "1885. December 9. 1:40 a.m. Port Angeles, Clallam Co. MWR. December, 1885, p. 313." We could not locate this issue of the MWR.
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
1885  12  9  1  40  A  P            Port Angeles  WA           
TAWA - 1070 - - - TAWA - 1070 -

Underlying Source Material
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1070  Townley, S. D. and M. W. Allen, 1939, Descriptive Catalog of Earthquakes of the Pacific Coast of the United States 1769-1928, Chap. III Earthquakes in Washington, 1883-1928, BSSA, V. 29, No. 1, pp. 259-268  1939   
Transcription: [1885. December 9. 1:40 a.m. Port Angeles, Clallam Co. MWR. December, 1885, p. 313.]
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
707  Reid, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park     
Transcription: Port Angeles 1:40 am 9 Dec, 1885 -MWR Dec, 1885
 


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