Follow-Up Chat with "Sharon From Malaga" 

LOL. I was in the punch card era starting and took Fortran and Cobal classes from San Diego State extension while working at the Joint Parachute Test Facility at El Centro. By the 1970's I was involved in business computing and took IBM programming classes in RPG at Seattle while working for a construction company in Wenatchee. What I loved about designing and writing computer software systems is that you always have to learn something new - new computers, new operating systems and sometimes new languages.

That newspapers article was several pages long, and was dated February 1 1922. The earthquake they were reporting was January 31 2022. There was no concensus where the quake ocurred according to the news report. This was not the first big quake of 1922. Here is a little summary both from the news and from Wiki Earthquake Summary. 1922 Jan 17 WIKI LIST: Magnitude 7.9, Peru Loreto region, depth 475 km 1922 Jan 17 MANY NEWS clips: 9 Earthquakes jar southern California. “The earth vibrations were reported from San Diego to Santa Barbara, and at Riverside and San Bernadino, while the most severe effects were in Los Angeles.” Siesmographs record in California, Washington DC and Gonzaga. “ A rough triangulation showed that the approximate spot where the reported disturbance occurred would be in the Pacific ocean 530 miles south of Cape Cerrientia Mexico and approximately 1139 miles west of Nicaraugua.” 1922 Jan 26 NEWS fresh earthquake, reports come in from Seattle, Spokane seismographs. Seattle UW people say nearby, Spokane Gonzaga people say thousands of miles north or south. Was this a precursor to the Jan 31 bigger quake off the coast of northern California (triple junction)? 1922 Jan 31 WIKI LIST: Magnitude 7.3, United States of the coast of northern California, depth 15 km 1922 Jan 31 NEWS MANY reports with very dramatic headlines of a mystery earthquake that some thought to be off the coast of Washington, or Oregon, and others thought to be in South America. Perhaps both were true, ie one event triggered the other almost simultaneously? This earthquake was described as massive, monstrous, broke seismographs in North America but no tsunamis were detected and they were having trouble locating it. Much discussion and many theories. I believe that this earthquake has been underrated in modern times for intensity based on how it was described.