“Yesterday morning[23rd inst]
Date
2-1-1812
Newspaper
Reporter
Page and Column
Page 4, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Lexington, Kentucky
Serial Number
351
Abstract
Felt report from Louisville, Kentucky of the January 23, 1812 earthquake. The first shock was felt “a few minutes before 9 o’clock...” the effect was to break off chimneys, stop clocks and throw glassware off of tables. It also notes that “fissures on the ground several yards long, and an inch and a half wide, were discovered in the street near the Market House.”
Transcript
Louisville, Jan. 24. Yesterday morning [23d inst.] a few minutes before 9 o'clock the inhabitants of this place were again alarmed by an Earthquake, equal in duration to, and, it is thought, more severe than the first on the morning of the 16th ult. 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 a 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
"“Yesterday morning[23rd inst]" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 344.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/344
