Raleigh N. C. Dec 20....”

Date

12-27-1811

Newspaper

Charleston Courier

Page and Column

Page 3, Column 1

Newspaper Location

Charleston, South Carolina

Serial Number

87

Abstract

Felt report on the December 16, 1811 earthquake at Raleigh, North Carolina. Time that first shock was felt; “about 2 o’clock and again at 7 o’clock...” The second shock “continued for forty seconds, shook the furniture, and alarmed a committee then in session in the Senate chamber so much that they precipitately left the state house.” An aftershock was felt the next day(December 17) at “About one o’clock” “some felt a sudden sensation of heat and giddiness, and the hats of the members of the House of Commons then is session, were tilted or moved upon their heads.”

Transcript

Raleigh, N. C. Dec. 20.--A smart shock of an Earthquake was felt in this city about 2 o'clock and again at 7 o'clock on Monday morning last. The latter it is said continued for forty seconds, shook the furniture of houses, and alarmed a committee then in session in the Senate chamber so much that they precipitately left the State House. The shock was not as we can learn, accompanied with any noise. About one o'clock on Tuesday many persons describe a very curious shock and sensation which they experienced, attributable it is supposed to the highly electric state of the atmosphere. Some felt a sudden sensation of heat and giddiness, and the hats of the members of the House of Commons then in session, were lifted or moved upon their heads.

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