The 1872 North Cascades Earthquake
Washington Reporting Localities

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ACCOUNTS EVALUATED
Duwamish, Wash. 





Data Source             Date               Code    Remarks




Tacoma Ledger          February 25, 1893  E       Insufficient data to
						determine intensity,
						locality is near Seattle, Wash. 						Not a period account; located near 						Seattle, and Seattle intensity
						appropriate.




A. Period Account:   Primary source for evaluation  of  intensity  or
                     felt report.                                                                                                            


B. Period Account:   Insufficient data to evaluate intensity.


C. Period Account:   Item appearing as dispatch, summary or brief des-
                     cription or duplicate data  with  more  complete
                     data available in other sources.


D.    Later descriptive account identified with period sources.


E.    Later descriptive account not confirmed in period documentary sources.
*Designates duplicate data not included in compilation.




Duwamish, Washington
Tacoma Ledger
February 25, 1893
Tacoma, Washington

"At Duwamish head a flagpole thirty feet high waved a distance of four feet."




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ACCOUNTS EVALUATED
Elk Plain, W.T. 





Data Source             Date               Code    Remarks




Puget Sound Express       December 19, 1872  B       Near Steilacoom,
							not plotted
                                                appropriate.




A. Period Account:   Primary source for evaluation  of  intensity  or
                     felt report.        



B. Period Account:   Insufficient data to evaluate intensity.


C. Period Account:   Item appearing as dispatch, summary or brief des-
                     cription or duplicate data  with  more  complete
                     data available in other sources.


D.    Later descriptive account identified with period sources.


E.    Later descriptive account not confirmed in period documentary sources.
*Designates duplicate data not included in compilation.




ELK PLAIN, W.T.
Puget Sound Express
December 19, 1872
Steilacoom, W.T.

At Elk Plain, about 14 miles from this city, at the Puyallup, and at other places in the country, the shocks were felt; but from all accounts, Olympia, Seattle, Port Gamble, and other ports on the Sound have had a livelier time of it than Steilacoom.