“On Monday Morning last...”
Date
1-11-1812
Newspaper
Reporter
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Lexington, Kentucky
Serial Number
255
Abstract
Felt report for the December 16, 1811 earthquake from Alexandria, Virginia. Reported that 2 shocks were felt, one at between 2 and 3 o’clock and another at about 8 in the morning. the duration of each was about 30 seconds. The effect of the shocks was of shake furniture and move doors and stopping clocks. From the newspaper the Herald
Transcript
ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 18. On Monday morning last two shocks of an earthquake were sensibly felt in this town, the first between 2 and 3 o'clock, the latter about 8. We do not find it was attended with any peculiar circumstances 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 Strasbourg, 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 houses, and move 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. (Herald.
Recommended Citation
"“On Monday Morning last...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 248.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/248
