List of Recorded Earthquakes in California, Lower California, Oregon, and Washington Territory: Compiled from Public Works and from Private InformationState Office, J.D. Young, Superintendent of State Printing, 1887 - 78 pages |
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a. m. San a. m. Sharp shock a. m. Three Alta Angeles April August Bainbridge Island Cal.-FUCHS Cal.-PERREY chimneys thrown County.-B cracked damage December 19 December 21 distinct shocks Dry Season earth February feet fissure FUCHS Gilroy Grass Valley Inyo County July June Lake Lick Observatory light shock Lone Pine March 26 Mariposa miles Mining and Scientific minutes Mission San moderate shock Napa Nevada City November 22 Oakland October 21 Oregon p. m. Heavy shock p. m. San Francisco p. m. Severe shock p. m. Slight shock p. m. Two shocks PERREY Petaluma Report S. F. Bulletin S. F. Golden Sacramento Union Salinas San Francisco San José San Juan San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Santa Clara Santa Cruz Scientific Press September September 26 shock at San shock in S. F. shock was felt shocks were felt Sierra County Smart shock Stockton Strong shock Tejon Three shocks Visalia Yuma
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Page 8 - Microseismic shock: recorded by a single seismograph or by seismographs of the same model, but not by several seismographs of different kinds; the shock felt by an experienced observer.
Page 31 - Buenaventura (IX) the roof of the Mission Church fell in. Several new springs were formed near Santa Barbara. In the San Gabriel Valley the earth opened several miles long; and in one place the river left its bed and followed the new opening. A large fissure was made in the western part of San Bernardino. At Fort Tejon nearly all buildings were thrown down, large trees overthrown, and the earth opened in a fissure twenty feet wide and forty miles long; the sides then came together with such violence...
Page 20 - Ord, USA (November, 1849), in Tyson's Report, Geology of California, p. 125, where, however, it is called the shock of 1814. October 8, between 7 and 8 am, is the day of the great earthquake which destroyed the church of San Juan Capistrano, according to a careful article in the San Francisco Bulletin, March 5, 1864. This date is often fixed in September or on December 8. The Sundays were: September 6, 13, 20, 27; October 4, 11, 18, 25; November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; December 6, 13, 20, 27. 1812. October...
Page 47 - I ever saw it snow. We had to use candles in the mess-room. Most of us went in to breakfast, but had only got fairly into our seats, when, horror upon horror, the earth seemed rolling like waves upon the ocean; every one was thrown to the floor, only, on regaining their feet, to be placed in the same position again, accompanied with the rattling of dishes, the crashing of window glass, cracking of timber of buildings, and the screams of the frightened. You could not imagine a more perfect chaos....
Page 8 - VIII. Fall of chimneys ; cracks in the walls of buildings. IX. Partial or total destruction of some buildings. X. Great disasters; overturning of rocks; fissures in the surface of the earth; mountain slides.
Page 24 - The shocks continued almost daily for many months. The first shock threw down a portion of Chimney Peak and opened fissures and cracks in the clay desert bordering the Colorado.
Page 8 - ... patterns in motion ; reported by experienced observers only. II. Shock recorded by several seismographs of different patterns; reported by a small number of persons who are at rest.
Page 22 - In Oregon City, on Rock Creek, near Portland, explosions like those of a cannon were heard for nearly the whole of a day. At first these were about half an hour apart; then they came nearer together, until at last they were no further apart than one minute or so ; finally they died away. The water in Rock Creek did not run for three days. — Verbal account of George J.
Page 55 - Hill, Calaveras Co. A house near Railroad Flat (VIII?) was lifted bodily several times. — B. MS. Lowe [Iowa?] Hill; Stockton 5:52 pm; Truckee; Grass Valley; Nevada; Chico; Mariposa. — Perrey. Nevada City. — B. MS. 1869 December 27. 2 am Marysville. This day was the maximum for the California earthquakes of this month. Very heavy shocks in Marysville (VIII); 2:10 am, houses thrown down in Sacramento, etc. (IX). — Fuchs. [From accounts in the Sacramento Union, December 27 to 31...
Page 24 - Severe shock eight miles southeast of San Francisco. Next morning a fissure half a mile wide and three hundred yards long was discovered through which the waters of Lake Merced were flowing to the sea. B. Ms.