“Another Earthquake”
Date
1-29-1812
Newspaper
Argus of Western American
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Frankfort, Kentucky
Serial Number
240
Abstract
Report from Louisville, Kentucky for the January 23, 1812 earthquake. Source Lexington, Kentucky newspaper. Damage noted was broken chimneys, clocks stopped and glasses thrown off of tables. Notes that some people observed “that fissures in the ground several yards long and an inch and a half wide wee discovered in the street near the market house.”
Transcript
Louisville, January 24. ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE! Yesterday morning [23d instant] a few minutes before nine o'clock, the inhabitants of this place were alarmed by an Earth-quake, equal in duration to, and it is thought, more severe than the first, on the morning of the 16th ultimo. Several chimnies were broken off, clocks stopped, and glasses thrown off tables, and it is said by some, that fissures in the ground several yards long, and an inch and an half wide, were discovered in the street near the market house (For the truth of the latter we will not vouch.) Certain it is that the citizens, generally, were very much alarmed, and particularly the ladies.
Recommended Citation
"“Another Earthquake”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 233.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/233
