The Earthquake of October, 1863. 



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enjoyed a parting rumble about 4 p.m., after having had their 

 share in the earlier distribution. Sorting out, from the various 

 communications to the daily press, a few of the most important 

 places in the line of attack, we may make two lists, the first 

 comprising those in which the shaking is alleged to have been 

 experienced about 3 A.m. on the morning of the 6th, and the 

 second including others chiefly affected at or near 3*30 a.m. of 

 the same day. The first list, it will be seen, is rich in western 

 names. It is as follows : — 



Twenty miles off Pembroke 



Newport, S. Wales, first shock 



Merthyr Tydvil 



Neath 



Cardiff . 



Upwey, Dorset 



Gloucester 



Portsmouth 



Stone, Staffordshire 

 The half-past three time-list comprises 



Axminster 



Barnstaple 



Monmouth 



Beeston Observatory (Notts) 



London 



Dorrington, near Shrewsbury 



Hereford and vicinity 

 The force of the earthquake was very trifling compared with 

 the gigantic concussions of which other countries are frequently 

 the seat, and we possess very slender means of measuring its in- 

 tensity by actual reference to work performed. Mr. E. J. Lowe 

 informs us that many persons in the neighbourhood of Beeston 

 Observatory, near Nottingham, were awoke by the shaking of 

 their beds and windows, and to this general testimony he adds 

 the more precise intelligence that the motion of his earthquake- 

 pendulum was from W.N.W. toE.S.E., and "the displacement 

 of chalk by the thirty-feet rod was half an inch, the index-needle 

 moving the chalk so as to leave an oval or rather lengthened- oval 

 hole/' He considers there must have been at least two shocks 

 — one at 2 - 35 and another at 3*30 a.m. During the latter, 

 ' c the zero pencils on his atmospheric recorder marked the paper 

 in a remarkable manner." 



No large object is reported to have been displaced any- 

 where ; but it is not unlikely that careful inquiries would lead 

 to the discovery of fissures in old and weak buildings or walls ; 

 though we should think the concussion could not have had force 

 to damage any that were sound. At Barnstaple, Liverpool, 

 Sedgely, and some other localities, small articles are affirmed 



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