Individual Event Report
| Event #5 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs |
| The source information for this earthquake is the diary of William Fraser Tolmie, who experienced the quake in the vicinity of Fort Nisqually. Plummer(Tacoma Ledger - February 28, 1893 - transcribed in WPPSS documents) summarizes: "At 1:40 p.m. Of June 29, 1833, two earthquake shocks of slight intensity were felt at Fort Nisqually- A messenger who afterward arrived from Fort Vancouver, 100 miles to the southward, reported that no shock was felt at that point." It does not appear in the 1887 Holden catalog, but the 1898 version cites Plummer, and assigns an intensity of RF II to this earthquake. |
| 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 |
| 1833 |
6 |
29 |
1 |
40 |
P |
L |
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Fort Nisqually |
WA |
II |
RF |
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| DIARY - 2611 |
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HOLD2 - 2533 |
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Underlying Source Material
| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 2533 |
Holden, E.S., 1898, A Catalog of Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast 1769-1897, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1087 |
1898 |
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Transcription: 1833 June 29: "13h. 40m. 0s"; II.
Fort Nisqually, Washington. -- P. |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 2400 |
Washington Public Power Supply System, "WPPSS Nuclear Project No. 2, Final Safety Analysis Report, Volume 1, Amendment 18"
September 1981 |
1981 |
Table 2.5-6 |
Transcription: 1833 Jun 29 Fort Nisqually TA
1833 Jun 29 Fort Nisqually TA |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 2611 |
Tolmie, William Fraser. The Journals of William Fraser Tolmie Physician and Fur Trader, Mitchell Press Limited |
1963 |
p 211-212; 222. |
Transcription: FORT NISQUALLY, PUGET SOUND Saturday, June 29, [1833] "Mr. Heron returned about 9 this morning to breakfast. Afterwards we mounted the north bank of Coe by the path & were occupied nearly all day in collecting specimens of the soil at every hundred yards length from the summit of bank to the ploughed land. H. & I on horseback. While thus engaged our three attendants, McKie, Brown & Peter Tahi, the islander, felt the earth under them shake violently at least twice. Brown first exclaimed, & seemed much alarmed - He & McKie were on their knees at the time & felt violently lifted up, the sensations of Peter I could not ascertain, Mr. H[eron] & I [on horseback] did not perceive anything remarkable - this happened at 20 minutes from 2 by Rendall's watch, which is not far wrong. On returning to the house we learn't that the shock had been felt there, the boards in the floor of house rattling together. The Indians were much struck & said "The Chief's (Heron's) medicine is strong, he has gone up the hill to shake the grounds." In some quarter of the globe, perhaps the Almighty has wrought some dire devastations by earthquake, one of the most powerful & calamitous instruments of chastisement employed against Mankind. The steep & broken faces to Eastward of the islands in the sound render it probable, that they have been severed from the main shore by an earthquake."
July 30, [1833] "No earthquake felt at F[or]t V[ancouver]." |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 1027 |
Townley, S. D. and M. W. Allen, 1939, Descriptive Catalog of Earthquakes of the Pacific Coast of the United States 1769-1928, Chap. III Earthquakes in Washington, 1883-1928, BSSA, V. 29, No. 1, pp. 259-268 |
1939 |
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| Transcription: 1833 June 29. 13h 40m 0s [1:40 p.m.?] II. Fort Nisqually [Thurston Co.].-P. |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 665 |
Reid, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park |
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| Transcription: Fort Nisqually 13h 14m 0s 29 June, 1833 II -Holden's Cat. pg 34 |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 2462 |
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)
At 1:40 p.m. Of June 29, 1833, two earthquake shocks Of slight intensity were felt at Fort Nisqually- A messenger who afterward arrived from Fort Vancouver, 100 miles to the southward, reported that no shock was felt at that point. |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 196 |
Bradford, Donald C., 1935, Seismic History of the Puget Sound Basin, BSSA, V. 25, No. 2, pp. 138-153 |
1935 |
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| Transcription: 1833 June 29, 13h 40m 0s; II; Fort Nisqually. P. |
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