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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 

 List of Strong Shocks — continued. 



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Date 



1812 

 1812 May 



1812 Oct, 8, 



7 to 8 A.M. 



1812 Oct. 21 

 1812 Dec. 8 



1812 Dec. 21 



1813 or 1815 

 1817 Oct. 5 

 183G April 2 

 1836 Aug. 

 1813 Feb. 8 



1847 



1849 Oct. 22 



1849 



1852 Nov. 9 



1857 Jan. 8 

 and 9 



1865 Oct. 8, 

 12.45 



Place 



Intensity 



1800 



Atka, Alaska . 



Southern Cali- 

 fornia 



Santa Barbara, 

 Cal. 



San Juan Capi- 

 strano, Cal. 



San Juan, Capi- 

 strano, Cal. 



From San Diego 

 to Purisinia, 

 Cal. 



San Fernando, 

 Cal. 



Santa Clara Val- 

 ley (?), Cal. 



Woburn, Massa- 

 chusetts 



Pribyloff Islands, 

 Alaska 



Pribyloff Islands, 

 Alaska 



West Indies 



Alaskan Coast, 

 Alaska 



Commander Is- 

 lands, Alaska 

 S.W. Guam 



Fort Yuma, 

 Arizona 



Southern Cali- 

 fornia 



San Francisco, 

 California 



Waniego, Kansas 



III 



I 



II-III 



II 



I 



I 

 II 



I 



III 

 III 

 III 



II 

 prob 



II-III 



II 



I or II 



III 



Remarks 



II 



' The New Madrid Earthquake,' 

 Am. Geol., xxx., 200-201 ; Edw. 

 M. Sheppard, ' The New Madrid 

 Earthquake,' Jour. Geol., 1905, 

 xiii., 45-62.) 



(H., p. 32.) 



Continual shocks for 4i months. 

 (H., p. 32.) 



(H., pp. 32, 33.) 



(H., p. 33.) 



At San Gabriel, church badly 

 cracked. (H., p. 33.) 



(H., p. 33.) 



(H., p. 33.) 



(B., p. 17.) 



(H., p. 34.) 



(H.,p.36.) 



Guadaloupe and Pointe Pet re wholly 



destroyed. More than 5,000 



people killed. Distinctly felt in 



various parts of the United States. 



(R., A.J.S., xliv., p. 419.) 



General earthquake, very severe at 

 Sitka. (W. H. Dall, ' Alaska and 

 its Resources,' p. 342.) 



Violent earthquake lasting all night. 



(P.) 



(Reference: Peterm, Mitt., 1905, li., 

 p. 40.) 



The shocks continued almost daily 

 for many months. (H., p. 38.) 



Due to displacement of the San 

 Andreas fault in Southern Cali- 

 fornia for a length of 225 miles. 

 (See Rep. Cal. Eq. Com., vol. i., 

 pt. 2, pp. 449-451.) (H., pp. 

 48, 49.) 



Two violent shocks within half a 

 minute. The accounts from 

 Sacramento, Stockton, and San 

 Jose represent the earthquake as 

 the severest ever felt in those 

 cities. Ten or eleven distinct 

 shocks were felt after the first 

 shaking up to 5 a.m. of the 9th. 

 (See Rep. Cal. Eq. Com., vol. i., 

 pt, 2, pp. 448-449.) (H., pp. 65, 

 06, and R., xl., p. 360.) 



(H., pp. 70-80.) 



