1965 4/29 15:28 UTC 47.31N 122.33W 66km Mb=6.5, Puget Sound, WA, USA
The 1965 Puget Sound earthquake is among the three largest and most damaging earthquakes of the past 100 years in the Pacific Northwest.
This earthquake archive has been endowed in honor of Prof. Robert S. Crosson by his colleagues and students upon his retirement from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in October, 2004. Professor Crosson dedicated much of his professional career to the mentorship of graduate students, the development of the Pacific Northwest Seismographic Network, and the pursuit of understanding the earthquakes and structure of the Cascadia subduction zone, as well as the associated earthquake hazards.
Since we have very little information about this earthquake, we urge scientists and engineers
who have studied this earthquake to contribute their materials for this archive. Please contact
William H. K. Lee at:
lee@usgs.gov (office), or whklee@ix.netcom.com (home).
Endowment Donors: Ken Creager, Steve Malone, Bob Odom, Stew Smith, Neill Symons, John VanDecar, and Tom VanWagoner.
Contributors: Charles R. Hutt, William H. K. Lee.
1. Seismograms of the 1965 Puget Sound (USA) Earthquake: Selected WWSSN seismograms from this earthquake were scanned as part of the USGS/ICSU Scanning Project. The endowment from Ken Creager et al., in effect, will replace the ICSU fund used to scan the WWSSN seismograms of the 1965 Puget Sound earthquake, so that WWSSN seismograms of additional earthquakes can be scanned.
link to compressed tif file directory (.gz format)
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References:
Algermissen, S.T., and S. T. Harding (1965). Preliminary seismological
report, in "The Puget Sound, Washington Earthquake of April 29, 1965", U.S. Department of
Commerce, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Rockville, MD, p. 1-26.
Steinbrugge, K.V., and W.K. Cloud (1965). Preliminary engineering report, in "The Puget Sound, Washington Earthquake of April 29, 1965", U.S. Department of Commerce, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Rockville, MD, p. 27-51.
4. A Brief Note about Robert S. Crosson Robert S. Crosson was educated at University of Washington (B.Sc. in Geology, 1961); University of Utah (M.S. in Geophysics, 1963), and Stanford University (Ph.D. in Geophysics, 1966). He spent his entire professional career at the University of Washington (Assistant Professor, 1966-72); (Associate Professor, 1972-78); and (Professor, 1978-2004). Prof. Crosson is noted for the development of the Pacific Northwest Seismographic Network, and for his pioneering studies of earthquakes and structure of the Cascadia subduction zone, as well as the associated earthquake hazards. Please click: Biographical Sketch for: Robert S. Crosson for a 1-page bio-summary written by Prof. Crosson himself for the International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology, edited by W.H.K. Lee, H. Kanamori, P.C. Jennings, and C. Kisslinger, Part B, p. 1879, Academic Press, San Diego, 2003. This bio-summary includes a photo of Prof. Crosson provided by Ken Creager.
(Last Updated: October 14, 2004)
