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Geology of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

EDMUND G. JOHNSON, CLIFFORD A. KAYE, HENRY A. RUSSELL, WILLIAM E. PITT, JR., S. A. ALSUP, K. E. FRANZ
Published: 01 November 1991
Environmental & Engineering Geoscience (1991) xxviii (4): 375–512.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2113/gseegeosci.xxviii.4.375
..., and the sporadic occurrence of altered bedrock. Boston lies in an area of moderate earthquake hazard and has experienced damaging earthquakes in 1638, 1663, 1727, and 1755. The 1755 earthquake was the largest one from a nearby source off Cape Ann. It produced an intensity of VII in the city and possibly greater...
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The Cape Ann, Massachusetts Earthquake of 1755: A 250th Anniversary Perspective

John E. Ebel
Published: 01 January 2006
Seismological Research Letters (2006) 77 (1): 74–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.77.1.74
... an offshore epicenter east of Cape Ann. Ebel ( 2002 ) used several different lines of reasoning to assign an epicenter to the 1755 earthquake at 42.33°N, 71.10°W. First, the pattern of intensity reports ( Figure 1 ), with the greatest damage from Boston northwest to Portland, Maine, appears most...
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REACTION OF BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA TO THE 1755 LISBON EARTHQUAKE -A COMPARISON TO THE EUROPEAN RESPONSE

Marguerite Carozzi
Published: 01 April 1983
Earth Sciences History (1983) 2 (1): 17–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/eshi.2.1.tn14161r6477q554
..., but not least, New England had just witnessed an earthquake on November 18th, 1755. Many governors ordered public prayers and fasts and two newspapers in Boston, the Boston Gazette and the Boston Weekly News-Letter , published and sold many sermons on earthquakes. There seems to have been a market and a need...
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Acceleration Distribution and Epicentral Location of the 1755 “Cape Ann” Earthquake from Case Histories of Ground Failure

Christopher Ellis, Pedro de Alba
Published: 01 November 1999
Seismological Research Letters (1999) 70 (6): 758–773.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.70.6.758
... due to the November 18, 1755 “Cape Ann” Massachusetts earthquake. Intensity levels obtained are shown to be in substantial agreement with those inferred from historic damage reports. It is further shown that distribution of accelerations and of occurrence and nonoccurrence of liquefaction are more...
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The Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755

Harry Fielding Reid
Published: 01 June 1914
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1914) 4 (2): 53–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0040020053
.... , 1755 , 49 , 419 . 22 Woerle, 80. 23 Phil. Trans. , 1755 , 49 , 544 . 24 After describing the earthquake of November 18, 1755, Minot, in his “History of Massachusetts Bay,” Boston, 1798, 1 , 262, goes on to say: “Such an extraordinary...
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Using Aftershocks to Help Locate Historical Earthquakes

John E. Ebel
Published: 15 July 2020
Seismological Research Letters (2020) 91 (5): 2695–2703.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200041
... a location for this earthquake based on the liquefaction and landslide reports, and their epicenter is onshore between 10 and 30 km west or southwest of Boston. Figure 5. Map of the isoseismals and different proposed locations of the 18 November 1755 Cape Ann, Massachusetts, earthquake, modified from...
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Liquefaction Susceptibility Mapping in Boston, Massachusetts

CHARLES M. BRANKMAN, LAURIE G. BAISE
Published: 01 February 2008
Environmental & Engineering Geoscience (2008) 14 (1): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2113/gseegeosci.14.1.1
... Surficial Geology Boston, Massachusetts, is located in a region of moderate historic seismicity, where several historical events of about M6.0 have occurred (e.g., 1727, 1755). The possibility therefore exists for the generation of earthquake-induced liquefaction of near-surface sediments...
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A note on the New England earthquake of November 18, 1755

Robert L. Rothman
Published: 01 October 1968
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1968) 58 (5): 1501–1502.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0580051501
...Robert L. Rothman Abstract Reports of a seismic sea wave associated with the New England earthquake of November 18, 1755 were investigated. Evidence indicates that such reports were erroneous and that the tsunami in question occurred on November 1, 1755 and was associated with the Lisbon earthquake...
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The 1755 Cape Ann Earthquake Recorded in Lake Sediments of Eastern New England: An Interdisciplinary Paleoseismic Approach

Katrin Monecke, Francine G. McCarthy, J. Bradford Hubeny, John E. Ebel, Daniel J. Brabander, Shelley Kielb, Emma Howey, Greta Janigian, Justin Pentesco
Published: 28 March 2018
Seismological Research Letters (2018) 89 (3): 1212–1222.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220170220
... settlements in the Boston area (Fig.  1a ; Ebel, 2011 ). Figure 1. (a) Map of the epicenter (star) and modified Mercalli isoseismals of the 18 November 1755 Cape Ann earthquake. The location of Sluice Pond is shown by the filled white circle. Black dots show the locations of other known or suspected...
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Catalog of U.S. earthquakes before the year 1850

Louis Winkler
Published: 01 April 1979
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1979) 69 (2): 569–602.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0690020569
... OF U.S. EARTHQUAKES BEFORE THE YEAR 1850 587 Marshfield, Worcester, Mass. Hampton, Portsmouth, N.H. Int III-IV: Portland, Me. Chelmsford, Lynn, Mass. Det: Brunswick, York, Me. Northampton, Plym- outh, Mass. New York City. Exeter, R.I./Ref: 103, 104 Dec 19, 1755; 22:00/Det: Wells, Me. Boston, Cambridge...
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A New Analysis of the Magnitude of the February 1663 Earthquake at Charlevoix, Quebec

John E. Ebel
Published: 01 June 2011
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2011) 101 (3): 1024–1038.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120100190
... because its cause was remembered for more than two centuries. This structure would also have experienced potentially damaging shaking in the later 1755 Cape Ann earthquake, which was known to have caused much masonry damage throughout Boston. Even so, the nineteenth-century author (Porter) did...
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A comparison of the seismicity of three regions of the Eastern U.S.

Michael A. Chinnery
Published: 01 June 1979
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1979) 69 (3): 757–772.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0690030757
... seismic zone. The areas of the two zones in Figure 5 are approximately 100,000 km 2 (Southern New England) and 27,000 km: (Boston-New Hampshire zone). Since we wish to exclude the 1755 Cape Anne earthquake from the data set, events have been 762 M I C H A E L A. C H I N N E R Y accumulated in both...
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Remote Aquifer Response to the 18 November 1755 Cape Anne Earthquake

Robert M. Thorson
Published: 01 May 2001
Seismological Research Letters (2001) 72 (3): 401–403.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.72.3.401
...Robert M. Thorson © 2001 by the Seismological Society of America 2001 The historic earthquake of 18 November 1755, the largest in the New England catalog, was felt widely throughout the American colonies and adjacent Canada ( Street and Lacroix, 1979 ; Ebel and Kafka, 1991...
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Eastern Section SSA 2002 Annual Meeting Report

Published: 01 January 2003
Seismological Research Letters (2003) 74 (1): 64–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.74.1.64
... in New England** 9:15–9:30 am J. E. Ebel : Using Chimney Damage to Estimate Earthquake Ground Motion in Boston from the 1755 Cape Ann, Massachusetts Earthquake 9:30–9:45 am C.H. Cramer and J. E. Ebel: How Might New England Liquefaction Features Affect Seismic Hazard Maps? 9:45–10:00 am...
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ELECTRICAL EARTHQUAKES: A SHORT-LIVED THEORY IN THE 18TH CENTURY

Jean-Paul Poirier
Published: 01 October 2016
Earth Sciences History (2016) 35 (2): 283–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/1944-6178-35.2.283
.... In the English colonies of America, there were also people who ascribed the origin of earthquakes to electricity. On November 18, 1755, an earthquake had struck New England and had caused some damage in the city of Boston. The Reverend Thomas Prince (1687–1758), minister of the Old South Church of Boston...
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An earthquake in New England during the colonial period (1755)

Frederick E. Brasch
Published: 01 March 1916
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1916) 6 (1): 26–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0060010026
... of the Mathematics and Philofophy at Cambridge. Publifhed by the general Defire of the Society. BOSTON : NEw-ENGLAND 1755 28 ]~ULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY A LECTURE ON EARTHQUAKES You may juftly expect that the great EARTHQUAKE, which fo lately 1 fpread terror, and threatened defolation throughout New...
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Assessing the Location and Magnitude of the 20 October 1870 Charlevoix, Quebec, Earthquake

John E. Ebel, Megan Dupuy, William H. Bakun
Published: 01 February 2013
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2013) 103 (1): 588–594.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120110063
... is estimated for the 1925 and 1988 events. Thus, as at Quebec City the site specific reports of ground shaking at Montreal are not useful for helping constrain the relative sizes of the 1870, 1925, and 1988 earthquakes. For the city of Boston, Massachusetts, Gouin (2001) assigned modified Mercalli...
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Rupture Scenarios for the 3 June 1770 Haiti Earthquake

Susan E. Hough, Stacey S. Martin, Steve J. Symithe, Richard Briggs
Published: 15 November 2022
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2023) 113 (1): 157–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120220108
...) , de Sartine (1770) , and ship captain reports (see supplemental material, part D) agree that all but two houses in Port‐au‐Prince were destroyed with equally catastrophic damage in Léogâne. de Sartine (1770) described the shaking as more violent than that from the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. This report...
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Estimating Locations and Magnitudes of Earthquakes in Eastern North America from Modified Mercalli Intensities

W. H. Bakun, A. C. Johnston, M. G. Hopper
Published: 01 February 2003
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2003) 93 (1): 190–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120020087
... this model, MMI site corrections, and Bakun and Wentworth's ( 1997 ) technique to estimate M and the epicenter for three important historical earthquakes. The intensity magnitude M I is 6.1 for the 18 November 1755 earthquake near Cape Ann, Massachusetts; 6.0 for the 5 January 1843 earthquake near Marked...
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THE STUDY OF EARTHQUAKES IN THE HUNDRED YEARS FOLLOWING THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE OF 1755

David Oldroyd, Filomena Amador, Jan Kozák, Ana Carneiro, Manuel Pinto
Published: 01 October 2007
Earth Sciences History (2007) 26 (2): 321–370.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17704/eshi.26.2.h9v2708334745978
... sciences.” “Vorticose” motion was apparently first recorded by John Hyde (dates not known) of Boston (Mass) in 1755, who mentioned the swivelling of chimney-pots caused by an earthquake felt in New England on 18 November that year (sometimes reported as being associated with the GLE ( Hyde, 1755–1756...
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