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On August 22, , this fault was the source of an earthquake of M 8.

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This earthquake is evidence that the Queen Charlotte Fault poses a hazard to the thinly populated coast of British Columbia north of Vancouver Island, including the Queen Charlotte Islands. The greatest amount of seismicity generated by the Juan de Fuca Plate itself not including the Explorer and the Gorda plates is beneath western Washington, where it is being subducted beneath North America Figure These are called slab earthquakes or Benioff zone earthquakes.

Most of the damage and loss of life in the Pacific Northwest has been as a result of these earthquakes, including the largest known historical shocks to strike either Washington or Oregon. The first of these, on April 13, , really should have been no great surprise. The southwesternmost Puget Sound region had been struck by earthquakes on November 13, M 5. Both were slab earthquakes, and both had produced intensities as high as VII, which meant minor damage and collapse of chimneys. The earthquake struck the southern Puget Sound region just before noon on April Strong shaking lasted about thirty seconds.

Most people were at work, getting ready to go to lunch. Most schools were on vacation, which turned out to be a blessing because of the collapse of many unreinforced brick school buildings. The epicenter was between Olympia and Fort Lewis, and the high-intensity damage zone extended from Rainier, Oregon, on the Columbia River, north to Seattle Figures to The earthquake was felt from Vancouver, B. A sidewalk clock outside a jewelry store at Third Avenue in Seattle stopped at the moment of the earthquake: Puyallup High School damaged in earthquake.

Unanchored roof and ceiling beams over the stage of the auditorium slid off supporting walls and crashed to the floor. Yesler Way, downtown Seattle, showing damage in earthquake from falling parapets and brick ornamentation and a collapsed fire escape, shown at left. Photo by George Cankonen, Seattle Times. Eleven-year-old Marvin Klegman was killed, and two other children were injured by falling bricks as they played outside the Lowell School in Tacoma.


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Jack Roller was killed when part of the Castle Rock School building collapsed on him. Five students and two teachers were injured at Adna School 10 miles west of Centralia. One little girl was critically injured as she left her second-grade classroom. Tons of bricks fell from the Lafayette School building in Seattle, but school was not in session, and children were playing in the schoolyard far from the building.

The Lafayette School was one of ten Washington schools condemned after the earthquake.

The auditorium collapsed at Puyallup High School Figure , but no one was in it at the time. Part of the Boys Training School at Chehalis crumpled and fell, injuring two boys. There were many narrow escapes. Freda Leaf, seventy-one, jumped into the Duwamish River but was rescued by a neighbor, D. The proprietor, George Pappas, immediately saw the danger and ordered the bartender, a big man named Bill Given, to block the exit.

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Moments later, tons of bricks cascaded onto the sidewalk in front of the restaurant. Water spilled out of an old water tower at the reservoir at Roosevelt Way and East 86th Street; a few minutes before, painters working at the tower had knocked off for lunch. At the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, under repair at the time, a twenty-three-ton steel saddle mounted to hold up a suspension cable dislodged and plunged off the bridge and through a scow on the water below, injuring two people.

Governor Arthur Langlie and his assistant, Dick Everest, were in their offices in Olympia and were showered with falling plaster. In a bizarre coincidence, a crucifixion scene with accompanying earthquakes was being shown at the time of the earthquake at the nearby Roxy Theater. At Second and Occidental in Seattle, a man was seen walking rapidly down the street after the earthquake clad only in underwear, sports coat, and shoes.

In Oregon, broken water pipes flooded the basements of two stores in Astoria, plaster cracked in Florence, and dishes crashed from their shelves in Newport. Chimneys crashed at Reed College in Portland, and office workers on the twelfth floor of the new Equitable Building were knocked to the floor. But losses were still remarkably low.

Probably the main reason, aside from school being out of session, was that the focal depth of the earthquake was about thirty-five miles below the surface, meaning that the shock waves had thirty-five miles in which to weaken in amplitude before reaching the surface. Because it was such a deep earthquake, the Intensity VIII zone was very large, but there were no areas of Intensity IX or X, as there would have been with a crustal earthquake of the same magnitude. On April 29, , at in the morning, a second large slab earthquake with magnitude 6.

Like the earthquake, its focus was more than thirty miles beneath the surface. Falling bricks from this building on King Street, Seattle, during earthquake caused one death. From Karl V. Steinbrugge Collection, Photo Adolphus Lewis, seventy-five, a retired laborer, was on his way from his hotel room to have breakfast when he was killed by falling debris Figure Raymond Haughton,fifty-two, was killed, and Eugene Gould, fifty, critically injured when a fifty-thousand-gallon wooden water tank on a two-hundred-foot tower collapsed at the Fisher Flouring Mills.

As in , there was considerable damage to school buildings. The greatest damage was to West Alki Elementary School, where a chimney sixty feet high fell into the boiler room, narrowly missing the custodian. Unlike , no pupils were injured. The mass at St. James Cathedral was interrupted when low-hanging chandeliers began to swing violently.

Two hundred parishioners fled the cathedral, but returned for the remainder of the service when the tremors subsided. At the Rainier Brewing Company, two thousand-barrel aging tanks were knocked off their platforms. One split open, spilling enough beer for fifteen thousand cases. Engineer John Strey found himself wading hip deep through the foamy beer. The next earthquake arrived thirty-four years later at p.

July 2, , at Satsop, Washington, ironically the site of a nuclear power plant proposed by the Washington Public Power Supply System that, fortunately, never got built. The earthquake had a moment magnitude of 5. Chimneys toppled, gas lines leaked, and power went out throughout much of Grays Harbor County. I was having a late-morning cup of coffee in Corvallis when I began to feel dizzy. The two people across the table from me continued to talk and obviously felt nothing, so I thought I was ill. Then I saw the swaying of a lamp and realized that I was feeling the long-period waves from a distant earthquake.

We were waiting for a news conference when it hit, an earthquake.

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Curtis Johnny and his girlfriend, Darlene Saxby, headed for the exit of their South Park apartment as soon as they felt the earthquake. Suddenly, a chimney crashed through the ceiling, covering Johnny with bricks.

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Hin Pang and his wife Sim Pang were visiting friends at a Chinatown club when the earthquake hit. As they ran from the building, they were struck by a shower of bricks from a ledge three stories above them. She suffered head, chest, and arm injuries but was released from Harborview Medical Center later in the day. Sim Pang, who had been buried by the bricks, suffered chest injuries and a crushed pelvis; he remained in the hospital for a longer time but survived.

Old buildings fared the worst cover photo. Tops of brick buildings crashed to the street along Alaskan Way Viaduct and along Second Avenue, crushing cars.

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A huge piece of the Fenix Undergound, a night club on Second Avenue South, fell on two parked cars; the inside wall collapsed, trapping club owner Mike Lagervall and his secretary inside. The Compass Center, a facility for eighty homeless men in Pioneer Square, had to be abandoned. The great stone columns of the Capitol Dome in Olympia, built in , were knocked out of line. State employees were allowed to return at the end of April, but tours of the Capitol were not scheduled to resume until the end of Chunks of concrete fell sixty feet from the top of support pillars in the Garfield High School gym.

Talking stopped, and Gates looked around as ceiling tiles began to fall. Giant chandeliers swayed, and the audience started screaming and heading for the exits or crawling under chairs. Gates calmly walked offstage, perturbed at being interrupted, even as a piece of light fixture the size of a cereal box fell next to him. There were light moments. Joanne Smith, a third-grade teacher at St.

Matthew Parish School in Hillsboro, Oregon, led her children out onto the damp playground where they watched dozens of earthworms come out of the ground, disturbed by the surface waves of the earthquake. In Seattle, Skyler Dufour, nine, collected rubble to be offered on eBay with bids opening at seven dollars. Governor Gary Locke estimated the damage to be as great as two billion dollars.

But on the other hand, only one person died, a Burien woman who had a heart attack during the earthquake; people were injured.