Individual Event Report
 
| Event #303 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs                                             | 
 
| Catalog entries are based on the MWR: "December 6, 1897.-Forest Grove Oreg.: slight shock at 8:30 p.m." Newspapers have not been searched. | 
 
| 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 | 
 
| 1897  | 
12  | 
6  | 
8  | 
30  | 
P  | 
  | 
45.52  | 
123.10  | 
  | 
  | 
  | 
Forest Grove  | 
OR  | 
III  | 
MM  | 
  | 
  | 
  | 
 
| MWR - 2208 | 
WWC - 1725 | 
 -  | 
 -  | 
BB - 1316 | 
 -  |  
 
 Underlying Source Material
| Source ID | 
Publication | 
Pub Date | 
Pub Details | 
 
| 2208  | 
Monthly Weather Review  | 
1897  | 
V. 25, p. 542  | 
 
| Transcription: December 6, 1897.-Forest Grove Oreg.: slight shock at 8:30 p.m. | 
 
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| Source ID | 
Publication | 
Pub Date | 
Pub Details | 
 
| 1725  | 
Woodward Clyde Consultants,  unpublished  | 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Woodward-Clyde Consultants (1981), Historical Catalog (1841-1980) for the Pacific Northwest Region, unpublished catalog prepared for the Washington Public Power Supply System.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: 189712 70430000 45520-123108W III                BB 3 01 | 
 
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| Source ID | 
Publication | 
Pub Date | 
Pub Details | 
 
| 510  | 
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  | 
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| Transcription: 1897 December 6. 8:30 p.m. Forest Grove [Washington Co.]. Slight.[MWR, Dec. 1897, p.542.] | 
 
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| Source ID | 
Publication | 
Pub Date | 
Pub Details | 
 
| 605  | 
Reid, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park  | 
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| Transcription: Forest Grove 8:30 pm    6 Dec,  1897  intensity-slight  -MWR Dec 1897 | 
 
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| Source ID | 
Publication | 
Pub Date | 
Pub Details | 
 
| 1316  | 
Berg and Baker, 1963,  Oregon Earthquakes, 1841 through 1958, BSSA, V. 53, No. 1, pp. 95-108  | 
1963  | 
  | 
 
| Transcription: 1897   Dec 7   04:30:--   Dec 6   8:30 pm (PST)   Forrest Grove   III   10 | 
 
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| Source ID | 
Publication | 
Pub Date | 
Pub Details | 
 
| 366  | 
Byerly, Perry, 1952, Pacific Coast Earthquakes, Condon Lecture, pp. 33-38  | 
1952  | 
U.W. Library, N979 B991p, Special Collections)  | 
 
| Transcription: 1897, December 6 Forest Grove, Washington County. Slight. | 
 
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| Source ID | 
Publication | 
Pub Date | 
Pub Details | 
 
| 822  | 
Reid 2, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park  | 
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| Transcription: Forest Grove            8:30p   December          6,           1897 | 
 
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