“By the latest mail”
Date
1-1-1812
Newspaper
Boston Colombian Centinel
Page and Column
Page 2, Column 4
Newspaper Location
Boston, Massachusetts
Serial Number
159
Abstract
Report of the effect of the December 16, 1811 earthquake at Charleston, South Carolina also reports form other places in the south. (Possible bells in Boston source
Transcript
S. CAROLINA. CHARLESTON, DEC. 17, 1811. EARTHQUAKE. At three o'clock yesterday morning a severe shock of an Earthquake was felt here.-The bells in the church steepler rung by the agitation to a degree that some supposed there was fire. The houses shook sensibly and the clocks generally were stopped. Two shocks were afterwards felt, one, a slight one, 10 minutes after the first, and the second about eight o'clock, which occasioned rattling among glass, china, &c., looking-glass, about three feet in length, hanging against a West wall was absorbed to vibrate two or three inches from North to South.--The southern paper, mention these shocks having been felt in Raleigh (N.C.), Richmond, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Alexandria (Virginia), Georgetown (M.d.), Philadelphia, &c.--They were more sensibly experienced in some places than in others.
Recommended Citation
"“By the latest mail”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 154.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/154
