“More of Earthquakes”
Date
1-24-1812
Newspaper
Raleigh Minerva
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Raleigh, North Carolina
Serial Number
678
Abstract
Account from Tennessee(probably Nashville) that describes effects of December 16, 1811 earthquake and aftershocks in Tennessee. Notes that a chimney top was broken at Carthage. Notes frequency of shocks until December 30, 1811.
Transcript
MORE OF EARTHQUAKES! Extract of a letter from a gentleman of eminence in Tennessee to another in Raleigh, dated December 30, 1811. "I omitted one circumstance in my letter of to-day. Earthquakes began here yesterday was a fortnight; the first shock very severe. At Carthage, the upper part of a chimney was thrown down. The second shock was not long after: but not so strong. Six or seven in succession were felt on the first day; and two, three or four every day since. The last, this day, (Dec. 30) at three o'clock in the afternoon. A rumbling noise is constantly heard. It has been felt at Natchez, but only slightly. I understand the most severe shocks have been experienced in the mountains towards the Cherokees. I begin to think it true, though I did not at first, that eighteen or twenty acres have fallen in near Piney River, so far as to make the tops of the trees level with the ground. "I am not satisfied with the conjectures of some, that these earthquakes are occasioned by the volcanoes to the south west. After an eruption, shocks of this kind generally cease."
Recommended Citation
"“More of Earthquakes”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 665.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/665
