List of earthquakes in Washington
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This is a list of earthquakes in Washington, a U.S. state.
Date | Location | MMI | Mag. | Deaths | Injuries | Total damage / notes | |
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2001-02-28 | Puget Sound | VIII | 6.8 Mw | 0–1 | 400 | $1–4 billion | |
1999-07-03 | Satsop | VII | 5.8 Mw | 7 | $8.1 million | [1][2] | |
1965-04-29 | Puget Sound | VIII | 6.7 Mw | 7 | $12.5 million | ||
1962-11-06 | Clark County | VII | 5.2 Mw | Minor | [3] | ||
1949-04-13 | Olympia | VIII | 6.7 Mw | 8 | At least 64 | $25 million | |
1946-06-23 | Strait of Georgia | VIII | 7.3 Mw | 2 | Limited | ||
1945-04-29 | North Bend | VII | 5.5 Ms | Minor | [4] | ||
1891-11-29 | Puget Sound | VI | Tsunami | [5] | |||
1872-12-15 | North Cascades | VIII | 6.5–7.0 | scientific interest | |||
1700-01-26 | Cascadia subduction zone | 8.7–9.2 Mw | Tsunami | ||||
Note: The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand-alone articles. The principles described also apply to lists. In summary, only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded. |
References
edit- ^ PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey, September 4, 2009, archived from the original on 2020-03-13
- ^ Jackson, F. J.; Molnar, S.; Ghofrani, H.; Atkinson, G. M.; Cassidy, J. F.; Assatourians, K. (2017), "Ground Motions of the December 2015 M4.7 Vancouver Island Earthquake: Attenuation and Site Response", Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107 (6): 2903, Bibcode:2017BuSSA.107.2903J, doi:10.1785/0120170071
- ^ Stover & Coffman 1993, pp. 380, 388
- ^ Stover & Coffman 1993, pp. 380, 385
- ^ NGDC 1972
- Sources
- NGDC (1972), Significant Earthquake Database (Data Set), National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K
- Stover, C. W.; Coffman, J. L. (1993), Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised), U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office