“About a quarter past 12 o’clock... ‘

Date

12-26-1811

Newspaper

The Times

Page and Column

Page 3, Column 1

Newspaper Location

Charleston, South Carolina

Serial Number

101

Abstract

Felt reports from the interior of South Carolina for the December 16, 1811 earthquake. “ In Laurens and Newberry, the only back districts we have as yet heard from, it was so severe that it cracked and started some of the chimneys from the houses.” In Charleston the effect was “that the people there were so much alarmed, that many left their houses; that the bells in the churches rang, and that some of the clocks in the houses were stopped by the severity of the shock. From Statesburg we hear it was equally severe but fortunately no damage was done. At all the above places, the shock appears to have been felt about the same time as it was here.” Laurens and Newberry are northwest of Columbia, between there and Greenville. Statesburg is approximately 30 miles east of Columbia.

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COLUMBIA. (S.C.) DEC. 20. About a quarter past 2 o'clock, on Tuesday last, the 17th inst, another small shock of a Earthquakewas experienced by the citizens of this place. The shock, which was experienced at half past 2 o'clock, on Monday morning last, from what we have been able to learn, has been very extensive, and generally severe. In Laurens and Neuberry, the only back districts we have as yet heard from, it was so severe, that it cracked and stained some of the chimnies from the houses. By a gentleman just from Charleston, we are informed, that the people there were so much alarmed, that many left their houses; that the bells in the churches ranged and that some of the clocks in the houses were stop by the severity of the shock. From Statesburgh we hear it was equally severe, but fortunately no damage was done. At all the above places, the shock appears to have been felt about the same time it was here.

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