“Earthquake!”
Date
1-29-1812
Newspaper
The Times
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
386
Abstract
Felt report dated December 19, 1811 from Dayton, Ohio for the December 16, 1811 earthquake. Extensive report notes that inhabitants were awakened and fowls left their roosts and cattle and horses were alarmed. Inhabitants fled their houses in terror. Notes that a survey a couple of days after the quake could not get the needle on his compass to settle to survey.
Transcript
EARTHQUAKE! On Monday and Tuesday last, the inhabitants of this place were kept in continual alarm by repeated shocks of an earthquake. The first, and by far the severest shock, was felt between two and three o'clock on Monday morning. It was so severe as to arouse almost every person in town from his slumbers.-Some left their houses in affright, and all were terrified at the unusual phenomenon. The horses and cattle were equally alarmed, and the fowls left their roosts in great consternation. It was not preceded by the usual token of a rumbling noise. The earth must have been in a constant tremor on Monday and Tuesday. A surveyor went out on Monday for the purpose of surveying a road in the neighborhood of this place, but being unable to get the needle to settle, he was obliged to desist. He tried it again on Tuesday with the same effect. Dayton, (Ohio) Dec. 19.
Recommended Citation
"“Earthquake!”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 379.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/379
