Individual Event Report
| Event #16 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs |
Volcanic Activity According to Plummer's article (1893): "The explorer, Fremont, says that on the 13th day of November, 1843, two
of the great snow cones (Mounts Tacoma and St. Helens) were in action." |
| 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 |
| 1843 |
11 |
13 |
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Mt. St. Helens |
WA |
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| N-WPP - 2465 |
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N-WPP - 2465 |
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Underlying Source Material
| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 2465 |
Coombs, H.A., W.G. Milne, O.W. Nuttli, and D.B. Slemmons, "Report of the Review Panel on the December 14, 1872 earthquake", |
1976 |
Appendix D: Selected Supporting Information -- Professor Plummer's Paper on "Recent Volcanic Activity" Read before the Academy of Science - Tacoma Ledger - February 28, 1893 |
Transcription: (This is part of an 8 page article - see the WPPSS table for entire text RSL 7/1995)
The explorer, Fremont, says that on the 13th day of November, 1843, two
of the great snow cones (Mounts Tacoma and St. Helens) were in action. "On
the 23rd of November St. Helens scattered its ashes like a light fall of snow
over the dalles of the Columbia fifty miles away," and it was still burning
on February 16,1844, when another witness described it thus-, "The mountain
burned most magnificently. Dense masses of smoke rose up in immense columns and
wreathed the whole crest of the peak in sombre and massive clouds, and in the
evening its fires lit up the flaky mountain side with a flood of soft, yet
brilliant radiance." |
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