Individual Event Report
| Event #356 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs |
| Landslide or Rockfall This is an account of earthquakes and avalanches on Mount Rainier. No account was found in a search of the Tacoma Daily News. Townley and Allen say: "Hundreds of acres of rocks and ice, including a number of glaciers, were broken loose and hurled two miles down the mountain side into the valleys below.... witnessed by State Senator Ruth of Olympia and George E. Huggins ...They were startled ... by the earthquake shock, followed by reports similar to the firing of heavy artillery. These gradually increased to a great roar. .... they observed that the southeastern peak had broken off and was tumbling down the slope. Slides continued all day. In the afternoon there was a broad black streak of bare rock where before ice and snow had been piled hundreds of feet high. There is probably some exaggeration in this account. An earthquake was felt at several points throughout Eastern Washington Tuesday night.-Reid's Scrapbook, 2, 29." |
| 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 |
| 1903 |
12 |
15 |
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46.80 |
121.80 |
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Mount Rainier |
WA |
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| TAWA - 1117 |
WWC - 1748 |
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- |
TAWA - 1117 |
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Underlying Source Material
| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 741 |
Reid, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park |
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| Transcription: Mt. Rainier Night 15 Dec, 1903 IX? -Newspaper; SB II pg 29 Earthquake caused a large landslide from Northern side of Mt. Rainier. Felt also at several points in Eastern Washington. |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 903 |
Reid 2, unpub., Scrapbook and Cardfile, on microfilm at USGS in Menlo Park |
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| Transcription: Mt. Rainier night December 15, 1903 IX ? Felt at several points in eastern Washington. |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 2445 |
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: 1903 Dec 15 Mt. Rainier, Wash. TA |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 1748 |
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: 19031215 46800-121800W R 01 |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 1117 |
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: [1903 December 15. Tacoma. An earthquake last Tuesday broke off the southeastern peak of Mount Rainier, lying sixty miles southeast of Tacoma. Hundreds of acres of rocks and ice, including a number of glaciers, were broken loose and hurled two miles down the mountain side into the valleys below. The breaking of Mount Rainier's peak was witnessed by State Senator Ruth of Olympia and George E. Huggins, a wealthy stockman owning ranges around the southern base of the mountain. They were startled Tuesday morning by the earthquake shock, followed by reports similar to the firing of heavy artillery. These gradually increased to a great roar. Looking toward the mountain, they observed that the southeastern peak had broken off and was tumbling down the slope. Slides continued all day. In the afternoon there was a broad black streak of bare rock where before ice and snow had been piled hundreds of feet high. There is probably some exaggeration in this account. An earthquake was felt at several points throughout Eastern Washington Tuesday night.-Reid's Scrapbook, 2, 29.] |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 100 |
Rasmussen, Norman, 1967, Washington state earthquakes 1840 through 1965, BSSA V. 57, No. 3, pp. 463-476 |
1967 |
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| Transcription: 100 1903 Dec. 15 - Mt. Rainier 4 felt |
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