“The Earthquake”
Date
2-17-1812
Newspaper
Mirror of the Times
Page and Column
Page 3, column 3
Newspaper Location
Augusta, Georgia
Serial Number
626
Abstract
Article from the National Intelligencer, with report from Edenton, North Carolina for a felt report for the January 23, 1812 earthquake.
Transcript
THE EARTHQUAKE. We continue to receive accounts from various quarters, of an earthquake felt at the same time as that which we have already noticed, as experienced in this city on Thursday last. They all agree in comparing the sensation caused by it, to that of fainting sickness at the stomach, vertigo, or approaching apoplexy. It is thus described in many accounts we have seen from different parts of the country.-The following is an extract of a letter from a gentleman in Edenton to his friend in this city; Jan. 24. "Yesterday at a quarter after nine we were alarmed with another earthquake; no mischief has been done, but many were sensible of an indescribable motion accompanied with a sensation of faintness or falling into an apoplexy. The oscillations were from North to South and continued about three-quarters of a minute, and some parts of the country was heard a rumbling noise like the distant thunder of great guns." Nat. Intel.
Recommended Citation
"“The Earthquake”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 613.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/613
