Individual Event Report
| Event #36 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs |
| Since there is no mention of an event in 1858 except for this reference, it seems reasonable to believe that this article has mistaken the event date. Could this be 12/26/1856, 9/1857?, April 2, 1859? or possibly some other date? |
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Underlying Source Material
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| 1519 |
Daily British Colonist |
1864 |
Monday (a.m.), Oct. 31, 1864; pg 3, c. 3 |
| Transcription: The Earthquake.--At about five minutes before seven o'clock on Saturday morning, this city was visited by another shock from an earthquake sufficiently severe to occasion much alarm. The oscillation which was from west to east lasted for about ten seconds and was accompanied by a loud rumbling noise, the sensation being something similar to that experienced in traveling at full speed in a railway carriage. There were two or three heavy shocks during the vibration, one of which was so violent that it might be taken to resemble the sudden partial checking of the train by a collision with some small object. Some persons who were indulging in a recumbent position under the sheets at the time say that they fancied a team of horses had been hooked onto their "wooden walls" and had started off at a gallop coming in contact during their gambols with two or three pine stumps. We have heard many different and some amusing accounts of the effect produced by the convulsion in various families, but domestic scenes should be exempt from public comment and we must therefore draw the curtain of them. No damage beyond the falling of one brick chimney was occasioned. In the city, though the plastering of the walls and ceilings in some brick houses has been cracked all over. In a saloon on Yates street bottles were shaken from the shelves, and in a variety store in Waddington alley, crockery ware fell from a wide shelf that had a slight upward incline to keep articles from falling. In conversation with a gentleman who has resided on the Island for 15 years, we learn that slight earthquakes have occurred annually with one or two exceptions during the entire period. Only on one occasion (1858) does he remember experiencing a shock at all approaching in severity that of Saturday morning. The oscillation as on this last occasion has almost invariably been from west to east, and he accounts for this by supposing that the internal convulsion of the earth beneath has to find vent in the (?) of Mount Baker situated to the east of us. This volcano has not had any visible eruption for several years. On the last occasion....(rest of article was too dark and too difficult to distinguish). |
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