Earthquake in England
The news of the terrible earthquake in New Zealand has shocked the country greatly and caused much anxiety among those who have relations in that beautiful Dominion, states a London journal. For -some reasons earthquakes are regarded as catastrophes that occur in distant foreign lands, yet one hundred years ago there was a succession of earthquake shocks in Scotland, and an old physical geography records that England has experienced as many as 255 earthquakes, most of them very minor shocks. There was a serious earthquake in England in the winter of 1750, after a very hot summer, followed by a second a month later. The prophecy of a third terrified the populace, and a clever manufacturer invented and sold many “earthquake gowns/’ designed for those who meant to sit up all night out of doors waiting for a shock, showing that enterprise and advertisement are not entirely modern. The last serious earthquake was in April, 1884, when Clochcstcr suffered severely.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5618, 6 April 1931, Page 10
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163Earthquake in England Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 5618, 6 April 1931, Page 10
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