EAETHQUAKES ON THE PACIFIC COAST 347 



and quite a number of very light tremors between, which I no- 

 ticed, being quiet in the building. The seismographs did not 

 record a spot larger than one-tenth inch on the plate for all of 

 these, although some of the shocks were quite severe, so much 

 so that it scared a great many people. On the 2oth 1 hung up a 

 one-ounce plumb bob on a fine thread three feet long in a glass 

 case fastened to a stone wall, and it was all I could do to deter- 

 mine the motion by it; all -the shocks, including those of the 

 25th, were vertical and produce a very strange feeling." 



1806. January 27; Carson, Nev. 



The first heavy shock was about 8.30 o'clock in the morning, and it 

 was quick and lively. It rattled the glass and china in every- 

 body's cupboard, made the windows shake and got several lazy 

 people out of bed (V?). The next was about 11 o'clock and was 

 also quite sharp. At 1 o'clock came the heaviest of all, and it 

 shook every building in the city. The Capitol building was par- 

 ticularly well shaken, and inside of a minute there was a rush to 

 the basement of the building to see the record of the seismo- 

 graph. It had been deflected about an eighth of an inch by each 

 shock and had also recorded small shocks all through the day. 



The Signal Service records showed a very unsettled barometer. 

 Rapid changes occurred and their suddenness w^as uneqiialed by 

 anything recorded since last July. These shocks were all graded 

 as No. Ill, Eossi-Forel scale. There were tv^^o others dviring the 

 day that graded I and II respectively. The first was north and 

 south, the second east and west and the last three southwest and 

 northeast. They were principally vertical. 



The jar at 1 o'clock made a large crack in the side of the Govern- 

 ment building and shook some of the plaster from the ceiling of 

 the county building (VII).— -Sf. F. Call. 



1896. Febrnory; Tananlz Peals, via Los Angeles, February 4. 



A special to the Times from San Jacinto says: There is considerable 

 excitement here over what appears to be an eruption of part of 

 the San Jacinto mountains called Tauquiz Peak, twenty miles 

 from here. The streets of San Jacinto have been crowded with 

 people looking through telescopes at the ominous clouds of smoke 

 which have hung over Tauquiz all day. When first noticed at 9 

 o'clock the vicinity of the peak was hazy with smoke. Within 

 the next hour this cleared away and glasses leveled at the extinct 

 volcano were able to detect a straight line of smoke ascending. 

 Soon this disappeared and then puff, puff, came more black 

 smoke, like that which pours out of the smokestack of a loco- 

 motive. 



The smoke has continued to pour out of Tauquiz all day, and every- 

 body is much excited, fearing an eruption. This peak has been 



