1872 North Cascades Earthquake - Weston Geophysical Research, Inc., Table 1
TABLE 1
COMPILATION OF FELT REPORTS
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Locality Primary Data Source Date Intensity Remarks
Colfax Oregonian 1/17/1873 No descriptive account for main shock of 14th. Colville Simms letter 12/31/1872 V - VI Spokesman Review 1/8/1906 Walla Walla Union 12/28/1872; 1/11, 3/15, V+ 6/14/1873 Puget Sound Daily Courier 1/2/1873 Region North Oregonian 1/15/1873 Report of doubtful auth- of Colville enticity - Intensity should not be used and locality cannot be plotted. Hold for corroboration. Duwamish Head Tacoma Ledger 2/25/1893 Near Seattle, intensity not plotted, not a period account. Elk Plain Puget Sound Express 12/19/1872 Near Steilacoom, not plotted. Entiat-Ribbon Wenatchee Daily World 8/8/1925 cf Appendix A Cliffs Part 1 Part 2 Fort Simcoe Pacific Christian 12/26/1872 IV Advocate Kalama Kalama Beacon 12/21/1872 II - III Kittitas Valley Olympia Transcript 1/4/1873 V Oregonian 1/7/1873 Klickitat Pacific Christian Advocate 12/26/1872 IV+ Washington Standard 1/11/1873 IV+ La Conner Daily British Colonist 12/15/1872 V - VI Lake Chelan cf Appendix A Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Lewis River Daily Oregonian 12/17/1872 IV+ est New Dungeness The Olympia Transcript 2/1/1873 VI est Olympia Daily PaCific Tribune 12/16,12/17, 12/18/1872 VI Weekly Echo 12/19/1872 Puget Sound Weekly Courier 12/21/1872 Washington Standard 12/21/1872 Oysterville The Weekly Echo 12/19/1872 Felt report of an earth- quake on becember 10 at 10:30 P.m. No later dis- patches pertaining to December 14. Pen-a-wawa Walla Walla Statesman 12/21/1872 V Pine Grove Walla Walla Statesman 12/21/1872 V - VI Port Discovery Daily Puget Sound Courier 12/19/1872 V+ Not plotted; locality near Port Townsend Port Blakely [RSL - AFTERSHOCK ACCOUNTS FROM COOMBS REPORT - NOT IN WGR] Port Gamble Daily Pacific Tribune 12/16/1872 VI Port Madison The Weekly Echo 12/19/1872 Felt Port Townsend The Weekly Echo 12/19/1872 Felt Washington standard 12/21/1872 Oregonian 12/27/1872 Puyallup (River) Oregonian 12/23/1872 VI+ Daily Pacific Tribune 12/16/1872 The Weekly Echo 12/19/1872 The Dalles Mountaineer 2/l/1873 Washington Standard 12/21/1872 VI Weekly Intelligencer 2/3/1873 River Station The Montana Pioneer 12/21/1872 Probably not felt report Pend Oreille of 14th - time is afternoon, not evening Rock Island Oregonian 12/30/1872 San Juan Douglas, G.C. 12/1872 Not plotted Seattle Daily Pacific Tribune 12/16/1872 V Numerous dispatches and Victoria Daily Standard 12/16/1872 VI duplicate accounts appear Weekly Intelligencer 12/16/1872 for Seattle. Puget Sound Dispatch 12/19/1872 Skokomish The Weekly Echo 1/2/1873 VI Snoqualmie Weekly Pacific Tribune 12/28/1872 Felt (Snoqualmie Pass) Willamette Farmer 1/4/1873 Vi? Spokane County Tiffin V est Location uncertain. Plotted Garry - at Spokane. The Oregonian 12/30/1872 (Spokane Bridge) Walla Walla Statesman 12/21/1872 IV Steilacoom Puget Sound Express 12/19/1872 V Stuck Valley The Olympia Transcript 1/25/1873 VI Tenino Daily Pacific Tribune 12/16/1872 Not Felt Texas Ferry Walla Walla Statesman 12/21/1872 V est Tieton Basin Wenatchee World 6/15/1922 Not a period account. Touchet Walla Walla Weekly 12/21/1872 III IV Statesman Tukanon Idaho Signal 12/21/1872 IV V? Tumwater Daily Pacific Tribune 12/16/1872 Vancouver Washington Standard 12/21/1872 Felt Walla Walla Walla Walla Union 12/21/1872 V 1/4/1873 Walla Walla Weekly Statesman 12/21/1872 V Oregonian 1/10/1873 Wallula The Daily Oregonian 12/16/1872 Heavy Willamette Farmer 12/21/1872 Wenatchee Washington Standard 1/11/1873 VII cf Appendix A, Appendix B. White Bluffs Oregonian 12/30/1872 White Stone Walla Walla Union 3/15/1873 See slides map. No report of damage. Yakima The Oregonian 12/30/1872 V? The Weekly Intelligencer 1/13/1873COMPILATION OF FELT REPORTS: BRITISH COLUMBIA
Locality Primary Data Source Date, Intensity Remarks Barkerville Cariboo Sentinel 12/2L/1872 No local reports; dis- patches from other areas. Chilliwack Daily British Colonist 12/17/1872 VI - VII Mainland Guardian 12/19/1872 VI - VII The Chilliwack Progress 8/19/1915 Is not a period account. Not used in intensity evaluation. Clinton Victoria Daily Standard 12/16/1872 VI - VII Puget Sound Dispatch 12/19/1872 Oregonian 12/21/1872 Fort Shepherd Walla Walla Union 3/15/1873 Same account found in The New Northwest, 4/5/1873. Hope [RSL - AFTERSHOCK ACCOUNTS FROM COOMBS REPORT - NOT IN WGR] Kootenai The Victoria Daily Standard 3/12/1873 V - VI Walla Walla Statesman, Weekly 3/29/1873 Lytton Victoria Daily Standard 12/16/1872 IV Matsqui Daily British Colonist 12/151 12/17/1872 V New Westminster Victoria Daily Standard 12/20/1872 Felt Nicola Valley Daily British Colonist 12/29/1872 VI O'Damet Victoria Daily Standard 12/16/1872 IV - V Not plotted. Locality unknown. Osoyoos Victoria Daily Standard 1/10/1873 VI - VII Daily British Colonist 1/10/1873 VI - VII Mainland Guardian 1/9/1873 VI - VII Perry Creek Walla Walla Statesman 3/29/1873 Felt Quesnell The Cariboo Sentinel 12/21/1872 (Quesnelmouth) Victoria Daily Standard 1/10/1873 Race Rocks Daily British Colonist 12/19/1872 IV? Not plotted, description not applicable to 14 Dec. event, pertains to "after- shock" on 15 Dec. Shuswap Prairie The Victoria Daily Standard 2/3/1873 V+ Soda Creek Victoria Daily Standard 12/16/1872 Described as "considerable violence" but no damage report. Van Winkle [RSL - ACCOUNTS FROM COOMBS REPORT - Article is IN WGR, but not under Van Winkle] Vernon The Vernon News 4/2/1936 Period accounts not avail- able for this locality; not plotted. Victoria Daily British Colonist 12/15/1872 VI Numerous duplicate des- 12/17/1872 Vi+ criptions or dispatches 12/19/1872 appear for Victoria. Daily Oregonian i2/17/1872 Portland Oregonian 12/17/1872 Yale Victoria Daily Standard 12/16/1872 VI BushbyCOMPILATION OF FELT REPORTS: OREGON
Locality Primary Data Source Date Intensity Remarks Astoria Plaindealer 12/27/1872 V Aurora Puget Sound Dispatch 12/19/1872 Felt Daily British Colonist 12/17/1872 Baker City Bedrock Democrat 12/18/1872 V The Mountain Sentinel 12/21/1872 Canyon City The Weekly Mountaineer 12/28/1872 Cascade Daily Oregonian 12/17/1872 II or NF The Weekly Echo 12/19/1872 Columbia City Daily Oregonian 12/17/1872 Felt Corvallis Weekly Corvallis Gazette 12/21/1872 Not Felt Eugene City Washington Standard 12/21/1872 Felt The Oregon State Journal 1/4/1873 Not Felt Jacksonville Democratic Times 12/21/1872 Felt? Local report uncertain. Jefferson Willamette Farmer 12/21/1872 Felt La Grande Bedrock Democrat 12/18/1872 IV - V Oregon City Daily British Colonist 12/17/1872 Felt Oregon City Enterprise 12/20/1872 Oro Dell The Mountain Sentinel 12/21/1872 V Pendleton The Mountain Sentinel 12/21/1872 IV est Oregonian 1/7/1873 Portland Daily Oregonian 12/16, 17, 19/1872 V The Catholic Sentinel 12/21/1872 Oregonian 12/30/1872 Rainier Daily Oregonian 12/17/1872 Felt Roseburg The Plaindealer 12/20, No data regarding local 12/27/1872 report. Not plotted. Salem Willamette Farmer 12/21/1872 IV Weekly Mercury 12/20/1872 St. Helens Daily Oregonian 12/17/1872 Felt The Dalles Weekly Mountaineer 12/21/1872 III+ Willamette Farmer 12/21/1872 Umatilla Weekly Corvallis Gazette 12/21/1872 Heavy Washington Standard 12/21/1872 Union The Mountain Sentinel 12/21/1872 IV - V Weston Oregonian 12/30/1872 Severe (Head of) Willow Creek Willamette Farmer 12/28/1872 V Plate I, Willows. Willow Forks Willamette Farmer 1/4/1873COMPILATION OF FELT REPORTS: IDAHO
Locality Primary Data Source Date Intensity Remarks Camas Prairie Idaho Signal 12/21/1872 Felt "Felt ... more particu- larly than elsewhere" Elk City Idaho Signal 12/21/1872 Felt "Felt very plainly" Mumford, M.B. 12/15/1872 IV [sic- This report is from Fort Lapwai, and will be found in that section RSL 8/6/1999] Lapwai Idaho Signal 12/21/1872 IV Lewiston Idaho Signal 12/21/1872 V Walla Walla Union 12/28/1872 Paradise Valley Idaho Signal 12/21/1872 IV+ Reed's Ferry Idaho Signal 12/21/1872 FeltCOMPILATION OF FELT REPORTS: MONTANA
Locality Primary Data Source Date Intensity Remarks Bozeman Weekly Montanian 12/19/1872 No local report. Deer Lodge The New Northwest 12/21/1872 II - III Helena Weekly Montanian 12/19/1872 Felt Missoula Oregonian 1/7/1873 III+ Philipsburg The New Northwest 12/21/1872 Felt distinctly Virginia City Weekly Montanian 12/19/1872COMPILATION OF FELT REPORTS: ALBERTA
Locality Primary Data Source Date Intensity Remarks Edmonton Journal of Daily Occur- Dec.-Jan. No report in Journal of rences Daily Occurrences at Fort Edmonton, Alberta Hudsons Bay Company Henry House Rylatt R. M. I - III ArchivesCOMPILATION OF FELT (AND NOT FELT) REPORTS: CALIFORNIA
Locality Primary Data Source Date Intensity Remarks San Francisco [RSL - FROM COOMBS REPORT - NOT IN WGR]