“Earthquake”
Date
12-20-1811
Newspaper
Charleston Courier
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
80
Abstract
Felt report from Savannah, Georgia. Report of the effect there of the December 16, 1811 earthquake. Number of shocks noted was four. First one was “ between 2 and 3 o’clock. Preceded by a meteoric flash of light, and accompanied by a rattling noise, resembling that of a carriage passing over a paved pathway, and lasted about a minute. A second succeeded, almost immediately after, but its continuance was of much shorter duration. A third shock was experienced about 8 o’clock in the morning and another to day about 1.” Also felt at “ White bluff(about eight miles from town southward”. Direction of the shocks “from southwest to northeast”
Transcript
EARTHQUAKE Savannah, December 17--Four shocks of an Earthquake have been sustained by our town, and neighborhood, within the last two days. The first commenced yesterday morning, between 2 and 3 o'clock, preceeded by a meteoric flash of light, and accompanied with a rattling noise, resembling that of a carriage passing over a paved pathway, and lasted about a minute. A second succeeded, almost immediately after, but its continuance was of much shorter duration. A third shock was experienced about 8 o'clock in the morning, and another to-day about 1. Persons from White Bluff, (about eight miles from town, southwards) felt it very sensibly; and several who were up at the time, [unreadable] that the movement of the earth [unreadable] them to [unreadable] though they were on [unreadable] in a heavy swell of the sea.-Those who were up at the time, conceive its direction to have been from south-west to north-east.
Recommended Citation
"“Earthquake”" (1811). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 78.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/78
