“Alexandria, Dec 18”
Date
12-27-1811
Newspaper
Farmer’s Repository
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 4
Newspaper Location
Charlestown, West Virginia
Serial Number
1226
Abstract
Felt report for the December 16, 1811 earthquake from Alexandria, Virginia. Time of the first quake was approximately 2:30 am( local time) and the second was approximately at 8:00 am ( local time)
Transcript
ALEXANDRIA, December 18. On Monday morning last two shocks of an earthquake were sensibly felt in town, the first between 2 and 3 o'clock, the latter about 8. We do not find it was attended with any peculiar circumstance of portention or effect; but being a circumstance of that rare kind with us, it excited as much curiosity in the inquisitive and wonder in the credulous, as did the stranger's nose in Strasburg, so satirically related by Sterne. There appeared to be but one shock each time, and its undulations might have continued nearly 30 seconds-It had force enough to shake the furniture in house and doors upon their hinges, and we have heard some instances of clocks being stopped by its throwing their pendulums out of their regular course of vibration.
Recommended Citation
"“Alexandria, Dec 18”" (1811). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 1179.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/1179
