HoGBEN. — The Tasmanian Earthquake. 



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Place. 



Effects. 



Intensity 



Degree on 



Rossi-Porel 



Scale. 



Hobart 



Launceston 



Scottsdale 

 St. Mary's 



Carnarvon 



Avoca 



George's Bay 

 Buckland . . 

 Moorima . . 



Coppington 

 Ouse 



Evandale . . 

 Longford . . 

 Devonport 



Blessington 



Boobyalla 



Fingal 



Carrick 

 Tartleton . . 

 Ulverstone 

 Penguin . . 

 Stanley 

 Beaconsfield 



Wilson's Promontory 

 Foster 



Stopped clocks ; overturned flowers ; 

 threw down fowls; rang bells; 

 rocked beds ; windows rattled ; 

 dislodged rocks 



House shaken considerably ; two 

 or three chimneys shaken down or 

 shifted ; bells rung violently ; 

 furniture shifted ; ornaments dis- 

 lodged ; clocks stopped ; inhabit- 

 ants rushed out of houses. (Pro- 

 fessor Hutton says bells rung on 

 hill, not on flat) 



Strongest ever felt ; clocks stopped 



Houses rocked ; window-frames and 

 slight articles violently shaken 



Three shocks at 2.50. Pillars of 

 church thrown out of perpendicu- 

 lar 



Loose bricks knocked off chimney 

 (by second and slighter shock at 3) 



People frightened 



Windows violently shaken 



Cattle and people alarmed, some 

 rushing out of doors 



Furniture moved out of its place . . 



Furniture and curtains shaken. 

 Most severe for thirty-five years 



Furniture rocked 



Clocks stopped and bell set ringing 



People complained of nausea ; 

 many awakened 



Houses shaken . . 



Heavy surf broke on bar . . 



Clocks stopped ; clocks started ; 

 bells rung ; plaster fell from walls. 

 Greater than the 13th July, 1884 



Doors and windows rattled 



All sleepers awakened 



Windows rattled ; persons awakened 



Nearly every one awakened 



A regular panic occurred 



Houses shaken ; doors banged ; 

 furniture rattled ; in mine (Tas- 

 mania), 486 ft. from surface, water 

 agitated ; pumping-engine rattled 

 violently; post-office clocks 

 stopped ; swallows alarmed, and 

 left nests 



Light-tower vibrated violently 



Chimney fell 



Vll. 



vii. or vni. 



vi.-f- 

 v.-f- 



vii.-t- 



vu. 



vi. 

 vi. 

 vi, 



V. 



v. 



V. 



vi. 

 vi. (v.) 



iv. (V.) 



vi. 

 vii.-t- 



IV. 



vi. 



vi. 



vii. (vi.) 



vii.-vi. 



vn.-vi. 

 vii. (viii.) 



