RELATION TO OTHER ALASKAN EARTHQUAKES 399 



in the Commander Islands. This is listed by Alexis Perret,^^^ as are 

 the succeeding earthquakes of 1853, 1857, 1859, 1861, and 1866. 



On N'ovember 13, 1853, about 100 kilometers^^* east of Ikogmute, on 

 the lower Ynkon, there was a shock at the village of Paimiit, moving 

 from south to north. Earthquakes there are infrequent, the last having 

 been felt sixty years before. The above note is from a meteorological 

 register then kept at Ikogmute by P. Netzvetor.^^^ 



On September 8, 1857, at 11 a. m., two earthquakes were felt at Saint 

 Paul (now called Kodiak), on Kodiak Island. They were several sec- 

 onds apart, the second being rather severe, though no damage was done. 



On August 8, 1859, there was a light shock, lasting several seconds, 

 on Bering Island. 



Sitka was again shaken by an earthquake on April 21, 1861, at 9.36 

 a. m."« 



On May 3, 1861, there was a light shock on Saint George, Pribilof 

 Islands, with a subterranean noise. There was a light shock on Atka 

 Island at 8.30 a. m., on May 10, 1861, followed by another on August 21, 

 this last with a subterranean noise.^^' 



In 1866, and before October 22 of that year, there was an earthquake 

 near Kodiak. Further details are lacking. 



In 1867 an earthquake was felt at Eussian Mission (Ikogmute), on the 

 lower Yukon, where the shock of September 3, 1899, was also felt, and 

 near which was recorded the shock of 1853 and another sixty years before. 

 W. H. DalP^^ was on the Yukon Eiver at about 11 o^clock on the night 

 of July 19, and reports that it felt as if the boat had struck a snag. This 

 has also been reported by Frederick AVhymper.^^^ The shock was severe 

 enough at the mission to throw books and other articles from the shelves. 



In 1868 Becker^^^ states that '^during a slight earthquake the elevation 

 is said to have amounted locally at Unga to over 20 feet.'^ 



Petroff^^^ mentions a violent earthquake at Sitka in the autumn of 

 1880. 



«» A. Ferret : Op. cit., pp. 239. 243, 244, 246, 247, 251. 



"* Really only 38 miles. 



125 M. Vesselofski, Permanent Secretary of Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg. 



^ Ann. meteor, et magn. de Russie, 1861, p. 455. 



^^ Notes extraites du comte-rendu de la Compagnie rvisse-am^ricaine pour 1861, par 

 M. le baron Osten-Sacken. 



1^ Alaska and its resources. Boston. 1870. pp. 118. 470: The Yukon Territory, l^on- 

 don, 1898, p. 118. 



^ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. London, vol. xxxviii. 1868. p. 234. 

 Travel and adventure in the Territory of Alaska. New York. 1869, p. 266. 



1*^ G. F. Becker : Reconnaissance of the gold fields of southern Alaska. Eighteenth 

 Annual Report. U. S. Geological Survey, part iii. 1896-1897. p. 19. 



1* Ivan PetroflP : Alaska, Its population. Industries, and resources. Tenth Census of 

 the TTnited States. 1880. vol. vi». p. 91. 



