On April 29, 1945 at 12:16 p.m., a Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes near North Bend.
The earthquake damages chimneys in nearby towns including North Bend, Roslyn, and Cle Elum. At Roslyn a boy is hit by a falling brick. At Mount Si near North Bend “the earth buckled and heaved, and tons of rock and earth cascaded down the 4,000-foot cliffs ... ” The epicenter of the earthquake is at 47 degrees 24’ 00” North Latitude and 122 degrees 42’ 00” West Longitude and was felt over an 128,000 sq km area.
Sources:
Linda Lawrance Noson, Anthony Quamar, and Gerald W. Thorsen, Washington State Earthquake Hazards (Olympia: Washington Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources Information Circular 85, 1988), 22, 49.
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