32 EAETHQUAKES ON THE PACIFIC COAST 



" at supper-time," and another at about 11 p. m. of the same day. — 

 J. B. T., Register. 



1800. November 22; 



A shock in Southern California. — H. H. B. 



1S02. 



Unalashka, Alaska. — P. 



1803. April ; 



San Gabriel, Cal.— T. H. H. 



1803. May 25; VIII. 



An earthquake damaged the Mission Church at San Diego slightly. 

 — H. H. B. 



1806. Marcb 24, midnight; VIII. 



The church walls at Santa Barbara were cracked. — B. Ms. T. H. H. 

 mentions a shock in March, with no date. 



1808. From June 21 to July 17; VIII. 



There were twenty-one shocks at the Presidio of San Francisco. — 

 Trask, Register, p. 7. — H. H. B. and T. H. H. say eighteen. Adobe 

 w^alls were seriously damaged. — B. Ms.. The first translator of 

 Argiiello's communication to the Governor raised the number 

 eighteen to twenty-one, and all the rest have repeated the error. 

 — H. H. B. 



1812. X. 



Atka, Alaska. — P. 



1812. May; VIII +. 



Southern California was subject to nearly continuous shocks for 

 four and one-half months. Four days seldom elapsed without at 

 least one shock. The inhabitants abandoned their houses and 

 lived out of doors. — Trask, Register, p. 7. 



1812. September, October, or December? Sunday? IX. 



Fatal earthquake. At San Juan Capistrano the church was destroyed, 

 with loss of life (thirty to f ortj^-five j)ersons) . The Mission Church 

 at Santa Inez, near Santa Barbara, one hundred and seventy miles 

 from San Juan Capistrano, was completelj' destroyed and some j 

 lives lost. — J. B. T., Register. A Spanish ship at anchor, thirty- 

 eight miles from Santa Barbara, was injured by the shock. — J. B. T., i 

 Register. The year 1812 was ever after known as el ano de los tem- 

 blores.—n. H. B. See letter of Lieut. E. O. C. Ord, U. S. A. (Novem- j 

 ber, 1849), in Tyson's Keport, Geology of California, p. 125, where, 

 however, it is called the shock of 1814. October 8, between 7 and 

 8 a. m., is the day of the great earthqiiake which destroyed the 

 church of San Juan Capistrano, according to a careful article in the 



