“Earthquakes in England”

Date

5-22-1812

Newspaper

The Georgia Journal

Page and Column

Page 2, Column 1

Newspaper Location

Milledgeville, Georgia

Serial Number

621

Abstract

Report of earthquakes in England in March 1812. Date of quake March 22, 1812. Area affected was Nottingham with reports of broken chimneys and panicked people rushing from buildings.

Transcript

LONDON, March 28. EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLAND. On Sunday morning last, during divine service, about twenty minutes past twelve o'clock, a slight shock of an earthquake was felt at the parish church of Whalley, attended with a vibrating motion, for nearly half a minute. It was also perceived in many houses in the town. Nottingham, and, we understand the neighbourhood within a circuit of many miles, were cast into great consternation, about half past twelve o'clock on Sunday last, by a serious shock of an earthquake. Divine service not being over, the congregations at St. Peter's and St. Nicholas's Churches, particularly the latter, were thrown into great confusion, and one lady was borne out in a state of insensibility. At Bobber's Mill, the shock was so strong as to shake some glasses out of a cupboard, the door of which was open. At Mansfield, the congregation were in the Church, when the noise was heard; the place shook, and it was supposed, from the dust and lime falling, from the ceiling that a beam had given ways; the people instantly sought to make their escape, and from the pressure, several persons were thrown down, and some of them much hurt and trampled upon. There was scarcely a street which had not several chimneys thrown down, the houses cracked, or otherwise injured. The Church at Mansfield Woodhouse, was much damaged. We received this morning letters from Paris of Sunday last. One of them says that rumors prevail at Paris (to which we attach not the slightest credit) of the Austrian army having re-entered France.

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