“The Earthquake”
Date
2-15-1812
Newspaper
Western Spectator
Page and Column
Page 2, Column 3.
Newspaper Location
Marietta, Ohio
Serial Number
1287
Abstract
Felt report for Washington, DC. for January 23. 1812. Notes nausea and motion sickness felt in city. No building damage noted. Coupled with it is a felt report from Edenton, North Carolina for the same quake. Time of the quake was 9: 15 am( local time) Effect was of motion sickness and the sensation of falling. No building damage was noted.
Transcript
THE EARTHQUAKE. 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 will agree in comparing the sensation caused by it to that of fainting, sickness of 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: Jan. 21. "Yesterday at a quarter after nine we were alarmed with another earthquake; no mischief has 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 has heard a rumbling noise like the distant thunder of great guns."
Recommended Citation
"“The Earthquake”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 1223.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/1223
