Dating the 1700 Cascadia Earthquake: Great Coastal Earthquakes in Native Stories
http://oceanlink.island.net/SOLE/LP/FN/1700_tsunami.pdf
- How information about earthquakes is presented in Native traditions and estimates most recent dates of them
- Historical Native stories cannot be distinguished from myths from the stories alone
- Southern end of Cascadian coast: many stories explicitly mention earthquakes and tsunami
- Northern end of Cascadian coast: explicit earthquake stories and explicit tsunami stories, but not many that discuss both
- Middle portion of Cascadian coast: earthquake stories are rare, flood stories are common
- Nine stories have info that is relevant to estimating a date of a particular quake/flooding, between 1860 and 1964
- Average midpoint of 1701; consistent with quake that occurred in that year
- Earth shaking/tsunami-like effects often described as supernatural beings/events
- Ex: thunderbird and whale
Serpent Spirit-power Stories along the Seattle Fault
http://pnsn.org/outreach/native-american-stories/serpent-spirit-power/Serpent_Spirit-power_Stories_along_the_Seattle-4Ludwin.pdf
- A'yahos - supernatural being associated with five locales along Seattle fault
- spirit boulder near Fauntleroy ferry terminal in West Seattle
- see notes in notebook
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