“the Earthquake”
Date
2-1-1812
Newspaper
Virginia Herald
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 3
Newspaper Location
Fredricksburg, Virginia
Serial Number
1096
Abstract
Felt report for the January 23, 1812 earthquake from both Fredricksburg, Virginia and Edenton, North Carolina. at Edenton the quake occurred at 9:15 am ( local time) and the duration was 45 seconds. People felt nausea and giddiness. It was accompanied by a rumbling sound. Same effects were noted at Fredricksburg, Virginia.
Transcript
The Earthquakes.--We continue to receive accounts from various quarters, of an earthquake felt at the same time as that which we have already noticed, as experienced in this city on Thursday last. They all agree in comparing the sensation caused by it, to that of fainting, sickness at the stomach, vertigo, or approaching apoplexy. It is thus described in many accounts we have seen, from different parts of the country. The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman in Edenton; to his friend in this city: January 24. "Yesterday at a quarter after 9 we were alarmed with another earthquake; no mischievous been done, but many people were sensible of an indescribable motion accompanied with a sensation of faintness or falling into an apoplexy. The oscillations were from North to South and continued about three quarters of a minute, and in some parts of the country was heard a rumbling noise like the distant thunder of great guns."
Recommended Citation
"“the Earthquake”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 1063.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/1063
