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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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Individual Event Report
Event #163 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs                                           
Reported felt only by the weather observer on Bainbridge Island
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
1880  12  14  7    P  L  47.65  122.52        Bainbridge Island  WA           
CGR - 1205 WWC - 1661 - - WBR - 2118 -

Underlying Source Material
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1661  Woodward Clyde Consultants, unpublished  1981  Woodward-Clyde Consultants (1981), Historical Catalog (1841-1980) for the Pacific Northwest Region, unpublished catalog prepared for the Washington Public Power Supply System. Copy provided to UW in 1993. 
Transcription: 188012150200000 47650-122525W III R 3 01
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
39  Rasmussen, Norman, 1967, Washington state earthquakes 1840 through 1965, BSSA V. 57, No. 3, pp. 463-476  1967   
Transcription: 39 1880 Dec. 15 02: Bainbridge Is. III 4
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1205  The American Journal of Science  1881  Vol. XXI, Nos. 121-126, January to June 1881, page 202 
Transcription: Rockwood, C. G. "Notices of Recent American Earthquakes", THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, VOL. XXI, Nos. 121-126, January to June 1881, p. 202.

December 7, 1880 - At 5:45 P. M. a slight shock from the S. W. at Olympia, W. T., lasting a few seconds; felt also at Bainbridge Island, where the direction was N. to S.

December 10 - A shock at 5 A. M. at Bainbridge Island, W. T., motion perpendicular (U. S. Weather Review).

December 12 - About 8:40 P. M. a severe shock occurred in the vicinity of Puget Sound, W. T. It was felt from Victoria on the north to Portland on the south. At Olympia four shocks were reported, lasting ten or fifteen seconds. At Seattle the direction was S.E. to N.W.; at Bainbridge Island it was N. to S.

December 14, 20 - Slight shocks were felt at Bainbridge Island, W. T., at 7 P. M. of the 14th, and 11:16 P. M. of the 20th (U. S. Weather Review).
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1241  Holden, E.S., 1898, A Catalog of Earthquakes on the Pacific Coast 1769-1897, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 1087  1898   
Transcription: 1880. December 14; 7 P.M.; III. Slight shock was felt at Bainbridge Island, W.T.___U.S.W.R.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
1057  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   
Transcription: 1880 December 14. 7 p.m. III. Bainbridge Island [Kitsap Co.]. Slight shock.-MWR [December 1880, p. 16-17].
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
457  Holden, Edward S., 1887, List of Recorded Earthquakes in California, Lower California, Oregon, and Washington Territory  1887  Printed by Direction of the Regents of the University of California, Sacremento, California, 
Transcription: 1880. December 14; 7 p.m. Slight shock was felt at Bainbridge Island, W.T.--U.S.W.R.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
220  Bradford, Donald C., 1935, Seismic History of the Puget Sound Basin, BSSA, V. 25, No. 2, pp. 138-153  1935   
Transcription: 1880 December 14, 7 p.m.; III; slight shock felt at Bainbridge Island. U.S.W.R.
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
2118  U. S. Weather Bureau Climatological Records, for the State of Washington  1819-1892  National Archives Microfilm Copy T907, Roll Nos. 530-537, 1819-1892 - Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County - Riley Hoskinson-handwritten weather forms. Researched by Gerald Elfendahl, curator, Bainbridge Island Hist. Soc. 
Transcription: From Roll No. 530:
Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County - Riley Hoskinson

"December, 1880: Earthquakes as follows:
7th at 5:45 p. m. -- Direction north to south, motion wavy.
10th at 5 a. m. -- motion perpendicular.
12th at 8:40 p. m. -- north to south, wavy.
14th at 7 p.m. -- tremulous.
20th at 10:16 p. m. -- wavy.
29th at 11:25 p. m. --also wavy.
All of the above very distinct, but not severe. Rather pleasant, than otherwise, Riley M. Hoskinson, observer."
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
691  Reid, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park     
Transcription: Bainbridge Island 17 pm 14 Dec, 1880 VII -Am Jr Sc III-XXI pg 202
 
Source ID Publication Pub Date Pub Details
845  Reid 2, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park     
Transcription: Bainbridge 7:00p December 14, 1880 VII
 


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