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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 #255 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs                                           
Information for this event appears to intiate with Plummer.
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
1893  2  16                    Sidney  B.C.  II  RF       
REID1 - 721 - - - BRAD - 260 -

Underlying Source Material
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
721  Reid, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park     
Transcription: Sidney 16 Feb, 1893 II -Holden's Cat. pg 214 My guess is that this shock was reported from Sidney, BC, located on Vancouver Island some twenty miles north of Victoria.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
880  Reid 2, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park     
Transcription: Sidney February 16, 1893 II
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1278  Holden, E.S., 1898, A Catalog of Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast 1769-1897, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1087  1898   
Transcription: 1893. Februarry 16; Sydney, Washington. II.___P.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1095  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: 1893 February 16. II. Sydney.-P. [Plummer has Sidney instead of Sydney. There is no place by either of these spellings on modern maps of Washington. The earthquake probably occurred at Sidney, B. C., which is on Vancouver Island about twenty miles north of Victoria.]
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
260  Bradford, Donald C., 1935, Seismic History of the Puget Sound Basin, BSSA, V. 25, No. 2, pp. 138-153  1935   
Transcription: 1893 February 16; II; Sydney. P.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1417  Milne, W.G., 1956, Seismic Activity in Canada, west of the 113th meridian 1841-1951: Canada Dominion Obs. Pub., V. 18, No. 7, pp. 119-146  1957   
Transcription: 1893 FEBRUARY 16. Residents of Sidney report a slight tremor. Br.
 


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