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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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1793-1849 .... 1850s .... 1860s .... 1870s .... 1880s .... 1890s .... 1900s .... 1910s .... 1920s .... 1930s (not complete) .... Other Cascadia Catalogs

  
Individual Event Report
Event #268 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs                                           
Tacoma? Holden cites Plummer (1896, Publications Astronomical Society of the Pacific, V. 8, p.78); and is himself cited as the basis for all other catalogs. However, no newspaper account was found in a search of the Seattle P.I., the Washington Standard or the Tacoma Daily News, or the Tacoma Morning Union.
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
1894  5  23  10  30  P  P  47.23  122.43        Tacoma  WA  II  RF       
TAWA - 1099 WWC - 1714 - - HOLD2 - 1286 -

Underlying Source Material
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
80  Rasmussen, Norman, 1967, Washington state earthquakes 1840 through 1965, BSSA V. 57, No. 3, pp. 463-476  1967   
Transcription: 80 1894 May 24 06:30 Tacoma II 4
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1099  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: 1894 May 23. 22h 30m [10:30 p.m.] II. Tacoma.-P.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
725  Reid, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park     
Transcription: Tacoma 22h 30m 23 May, 1894 II -Holden's Cat. pg 227
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1286  Holden, E.S., 1898, A Catalog of Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast 1769-1897, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1087  1898   
Transcription: 1894. May 23; Tacoma, Washington; 22h. 30m. II.__P.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
264  Bradford, Donald C., 1935, Seismic History of the Puget Sound Basin, BSSA, V. 25, No. 2, pp. 138-153  1935   
Transcription: 1894 May 23, 22h 30m; II; Tacoma. P.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1714  Woodward Clyde Consultants, unpublished  1981  Woodward-Clyde Consultants (1981), Historical Catalog (1841-1980) for the Pacific Northwest Region, unpublished catalog prepared for the Washington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: 189405240630000 47236-122433W II R 2 01
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
884  Reid 2, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park     
Transcription: Tacoma 10:30p May 23, 1894 II
 


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