Earthquake of 1692

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Douglas Richardson

Earthquake of 1692

Legg inn av Douglas Richardson » 06 jan 2006 06:44:39

Memorandum

That on Thursday Sept: 8 1692 there happened about two of ye Clock
in the afternoon for ye space of a minute or more an universall
earthquake all over England France Holland & fome parts of Germany. and
particularly it waf attefted to me by the Masons that were then a
plaistring the Steeple of St Peter in this Towne & uppon the upper most
scaffold that the steeple parted fo wide in ye midst that they could
have put their hand into the crack or cleft y immediately shut up clofe
again, without any damage to the workmen (who expected all would have
fallen down) or to the fteeple it felf, most of the houfes here and
elfewhere fhooke, & part of a chimny fell downe on North Hill, & very
many who were fenfible of it were taken at ye same time with a giddynef
in their head, for fom fhort time, in witnefs of wt is here related I
have here fet my hand.

Robt Dickman Ministr of St Pet: Colchefter

pj.evans

Re: Earthquake of 1692

Legg inn av pj.evans » 07 jan 2006 04:39:54

A pass throught Google turned up the information that this earthquake
had its epicenter in Belgium and 5.6 magnitude (moderate by modern
standards, but big enough to do real damage to brickwork and other
masonry; for comparison, the Whittier Narows earthquake was 5.9-6.0
magnitude). (The date is 8 Sept old style and 18 Sept new style.)

Douglas Richardson wrote:
Memorandum

That on Thursday Sept: 8 1692 there happened about two of ye Clock
in the afternoon for ye space of a minute or more an universall
earthquake all over England France Holland & fome parts of Germany. and
particularly it waf attefted to me by the Masons that were then a
plaistring the Steeple of St Peter in this Towne & uppon the upper most
scaffold that the steeple parted fo wide in ye midst that they could
have put their hand into the crack or cleft y immediately shut up clofe
again, without any damage to the workmen (who expected all would have
fallen down) or to the fteeple it felf, most of the houfes here and
elfewhere fhooke, & part of a chimny fell downe on North Hill, & very
many who were fenfible of it were taken at ye same time with a giddynef
in their head, for fom fhort time, in witnefs of wt is here related I
have here fet my hand.

Robt Dickman Ministr of St Pet: Colchefter

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