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Cascadia Historic Earthquake Catalog, 1793-1929
Covering Washington, Oregon and Southern British Columbia

Provided by: The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
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Event #49 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs                                           
Known only from the WPPSS documents, which include an article from the Victoria Daily Colonist: " felt on Thorne's Creek, three miles east of Fort Langley, ... It was accompanied by a hoarse thundering rumble, and lasted for about thirty seconds. ...So frightful was the commotion of its quick and awful rockings as to make it a moment of great suspense as to whether the beholder would be buried with the log shanty, which cracked, rolled and tottered around him".
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
1864  28  30              Thorne's Creek (Ft. Langley)  B.C.           
N-WPP - 2490 - - - N-WPP - 2490 -

Underlying Source Material
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
2490  Washington Public Power Supply System, Preliminary
Safety Analysis Report, Ammendment 23,
WPPSS Nuclear Project No. 1, 1300 MW Nuclear Power Plant, Vol. 2A. 
1977  Tables 2R-E18 and 2R-E14D. Victoria Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., March 14, 1864 
Transcription: February 28, 1864
Victoria Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., March 14, 1864

"SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE

"We have received the following from a rural correspondent:--'The
shock of an earthquake was felt on Thorne's Creek, three miles east of
Fort Langley, on Sunday the 28th of Feb. last at 7 1/2, in the evening. It
was accompanied by a hoarse thundering rumble, and lasted for about
thirty seconds. The sky was at the time clear and brilliant and the
atmosphere calm and mild. So frightful was the commotion of its quick
and awful rockings as to make it a moment of great suspense as to whether
the beholder would be buried with the log shanty, which cracked, rolled
and tottered around him, in a conglomerated mass of hetrogenious ruin.
Its course was across the Creek, from north to south.--Ib'

"(Query. Has Artemus Ward strayed up to the neighborhood of Thorne's
Creek?--Ed. ) "
 


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