Almost exactly four weeks after the first shock, at 5:30am on 8 March, came the second. Were they a warning from God? An airquake was no more to be feared than a clap of thunder; it might throw down a few tottery structures, but also brought benefit by purifying the atmosphere. The shock had been felt in France, Belgium, and Holland. The warmth and dryness of the spring, and probably the smoke from the coal-fires of the city, had increased the accumulation of sulphurous exhalations, and thence of meteors, which he believed to be composed of 'inflammable vapours'. The warm season was not confined to London, yet no-one else had experienced a quake. The sudden destruction of Lisbon by an earthquake and tsunami in 1755 exerted an influence on 18th-century Europe as far-reaching as the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs in the 20th century. In A History of British Earthquakes, Charles Davison notes that “cats started up, dogs howled, sheep ran about, a horse refused to drink, the water being so much agitated, in several ponds fish leaped out of the water and were seen to dart away in all directions”. To plays, to sports!To midnight revels! There he unexpectedly became the leader of a much wider independence movement than the one he had led in Venezuela. Battle of Arcot (India) between the Britsh and French East India Companies . So, strange as it is to report, seismology began not in seismic California or Japan but in stable Britain. The following is a list of notable earthquakes that have been detected in the United Kingdom.. On average several hundred earthquakes are detected by the British Geological Survey each year, but almost all are far too faint to be felt by humans. The concept London (England) -- Earthquake, 1750 represents the subject, aboutness, idea or notion of resources found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. For a more detailed introduction to this collection, see Karen Beth Westerfield Tucker, “‘On the Occasion’: Charles Wesley’s Hymns on the London Earthquakes of 1750,” Methodist History 42 (2004): 197–221. In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost totally destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas. A leading clergyman, William Whiston, successor to Newton as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, expressed his belief that the end of the world was close at hand, as predicted by 99 signals. A poet of Norwich fired the first shot; “Britain! No 92 was that there would occur a terrible – but, to good men, a joyful – earthquake, which would destroy one tenth of an eminent city. But it was 1750, the so-called ‘Year of Earthquakes’ that triggered a country-wide obsession with seismic events and kick-started the scientific study of the subject. That evening, from Salisbury, an arch of light extended across the horizon, 'wavering like flames issuing from fire.' Sherlock urged his readers to repent, and to ignore “little philosophers, who see a little, and but very little into natural causes… not considering that God who made all things, never put anything out of his own power”. The earthquakes that rocked Georgian London. Two other earthquakes in 1750 took place within a month of each other. It was also felt in Lincolnshire. The Gentleman's Magazine described for them an earthquake of 1692 in Sicily, 'the most dreadful in all history', which 'swallowed up...an incredible number of villages, and sixty thousand people'. On the 8th of March, 1750, an earthquake shook London. Thus he was “fully satisfied' that there would soon be a great earthquake, “and a tenth part of London will fall; and that, in this earthquake, shall be slain ten thousand names of men...and that the rest of its inhabitants...will be so happily affrighted at so terrible a judgement, as to give glory to the god of heaven.”, Note: unless otherwise stated, all dates are O.S. Thank you for subscribing to HistoryExtra, you now have unlimited access. The fire that destroyed three-quarters of San Francisco over three days in 1906 was started by an earthquake that disabled the water supply of the city, including its fire hydrants. In Southwark, south of the Thames, a slaughter - house with a hay-loft collapsed. • 17 January – John Canton reads a paper in the presence of the Royal Society on a method of making artificial magnets. Three days of great heat ripened the corn before its time; several labourers died in the fields, and many burdened horses fell dead in the roads. Was it another warning, delivered with more force? For 4 April, this reads: “Incredible numbers of people, being under strong apprehensions that London and Westminster would be visited with another and more fatal earthquake… left their houses, and walked in the fields, or lay in boats all night; many people of fashion in the neighbouring villages sat in their coaches till daybreak; others went to a greater distance, so that the roads were never more thronged, and lodgings were hardly to be procured at Windsor; so far, and even to their wits’ end, had their superstitious fears, or their guilty conscience, driven them.”, Part of the blame must undoubtedly fall on the activities of religious preachers during March. Tremor in Fleet-street, 1750. They suspected a Guy Fawkes-style explosion, perhaps set off by the notorious Dynamiters then being prosecuted for their Irish nationalist activities. Horace Walpole, man of letters and politician, was in bed in central London. A faint aurora sent up its beams for an hour or so before fading; then, about 9 p.m., an 'extraordinary phenomenon' took form in the southern sky. Everything you ever wanted to know about... What was Christmas like in Britain during the Second World War? London Earthquake. The second tremor had been more violent. where, now?For wish'd relief? During the 1750s, Michell examined eyewitness reports from England in 1750 and from the devastating Lisbon earthquake in 1755, and analysed them according to Newtonian mechanics. Thomas Sherlock, the Bishop of London, was sure of it. What happened in January 1750. The clergy began to prepare their sermons. There seems to be a problem, please try again. It shook London. But it was the warnings of the bishop of London, Thomas Sherlock, that attracted the most attention. On Thursday Morning, March 8, 1749. If you subscribe to BBC History Magazine Print or Digital Editions then you can unlock 10 years’ worth of archived history material fully searchable by Topic, Location, Period and Person. Little did they know it, but Londoners were being shaken and stirred by the first of several earthquakes that would strike England that year. It was 'much stronger than that felt in London”, and lasted nearly a minute. 1753. Meanwhile, in London, a 'crazy lifeguardman' (Trooper Mitchell, of Lord Delaware's regiment of Life Guards) had joined with the Bishop of London in predicting disaster. Some citizens, to the annoyance of the clergy, professed to be careless about the business, and sent each other cards: “I invite your ladyship to the Earthquake on ----- next'. On Thursday, August 23, on a fine bright morning, the windows of Nottinghamshire rattled in another earthquake. 1751. The roads were thronged with vast numbers of people leaving the city. By the 19th century, images of a shaking Lisbon were icons of natural disaster comparable with the smothering of Pompeii and Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius. The Essex Field Club the leading society for wildlife and geology enthusiasts in Essex, England, UK. On Tuesday, March 8, a month after the London earthquake, at about one o'clock in the morning, wakeful persons in the city thought to feel another quaver. The thirteen new hymns included in this second part continue the tone and themes of Part One. “Several women have made earthquake gowns; that is, warm gowns to sit out of doors all tonight.”, That Walpole was not exaggerating is confirmed by the ‘Historical Chronicle’ of April published in the monthly Gentleman’s Magazine. ', who was shaken by it as he lay awake in bed, as “a sound from the earth, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it shook all the house with every thing that was therein.” E.A. which was interested in everything, told its readers that there were three kinds of earthquake; the 'Inclination', which was a vibration from side to side, the 'Pulsation', up and down, and the 'Tremor', “when it shakes and quivers every way like a flame.” Scholars were agreed that the origins of earthquakes were to be found in the underground voids with which the earth was believed to be honeycombed, especially in mountainous regions; but whether it was the surges of air, water or fire within these caverns that were the actual cause of the shock was still disputed. In Lincolnshire, the earthquake was described by a Gentleman's Magazine correspondent, 'E.A. a series of earthquakes rocked London in 1750 rattled and crockery clattered on its shelves. About 8 p.m., a not unfamiliar sight appeared in the north. In Southwark, a slaughterhouse collapsed, and a chimney fell in Leadenhall Street. ‘The lights in the air’ seen from Stalbrige in Derbyshire, 16 January 1750. from a drawing by ’S.B.’ in the Gentleman’s Magazine.THE SECOND EARTHQUAKE. One, musing in a ruined abbey during a thunderstorm, asked rhetorically; Again – another – a repeated shock...Where fly the threaten'd wretches? For about half an hour after five o'clock, the sky flickered with continual lightning. Then a second fiery cloud, larger than the first, rose to the apex of the sky. ), in the morning, an area 20 miles round Wimbourn in Dorset was shaken by one violent shock, accompanied by a sound like the thunder of artillery. On Monday, April 2, at about 10 pm, Liverpool and an area about 40 miles round vibrated to 'a smart shock of an earthquake' for two or three seconds. It was more pronounced, and covered five times the area – a circle with a diameter of 40 miles ,with its centre roughly three miles north of London Bridge. Just after 12.30pm on 8 February 1750, Britain’s lord chancellor was sitting in Westminster Hall with the Courts of King’s Bench and Chancery when the room began to shake. Those anticipating divine wrath were somewhat disappointed by the earthquakes of 1750. At first, an earthquake was not accepted as an explanation for the 8 February tremor – so improbable did it appear to be. Natural philosophers, however, remained fascinated. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, impacted on Portugal on the morning of Saturday, 1 November, Feast of All Saints, at around 09:40 local time. He pointed out that the shocks were confined to London and its environs, and were therefore 'immediately directed' at that city, and sneered at the 'little philosophers', who saw earthquakes only as natural phenomena. John Wesley, "Some Serious Thoughts Occasioned by the Late Earthquake at Lisbon," (1755) (From the Works of John Wesley, vol. Please enter your number below. Those in the open spaces of the city felt the ground move 'very perceptibly'. Windows and beds had been shaken sideways, and, just before the shock, a 'vast ball of fire' had been seen in the sky to the west of London. On Sunday, March 18, at about 6 pm, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight were shaken, and, as they trembled, the air vibrated to a noise like the firing of great guns. founded by Edward Cave, alias 'Sylvanus Urban', in 1731). Imprint London: : Printed for Tim. Given his standing in London society, Whiston’s ideas were seriously discussed. On April 20, between 8 and 9 pm, an auroral arch rose in the east-north-east at Biddeford and formed a 'scarlet cone' near the zenith. The last significant tremor to shake the capital had been 170 years earlier, in 1580. With one accord, the jury sprinted for the court-room door. By entering your details, you are agreeing to HistoryExtra terms and conditions and privacy policy. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake became history’s leading example of how a great earthquake can trigger the ‘creative destruction’ of a city. ... A Supplement to the Bishop of London's letter to the clergy and people of London and Westminster, on occasion of the late earthquakes… Dogs howled. He believed that, as the shock was accompanied by a sound like rushing wind, it must have actually been caused by such a wind, which burst out of the earth somewhere in the 'dreary fens' of Lincolnshire. 8 February 1750 London, England ~2.6 8 March 1750 London, England ~3.1 The last … Three days later, he reported to a friend: “On a sudden I felt my bolster lift up my head; I thought somebody was getting from under my bed, but soon found it was a strong earthquake, that lasted near half a minute, with a violent vibration and great roaring. An apprehensive resident rushed outside, and saw, for fifteen minutes, a curious appearance in the heavens; “multitudes of blood red rays” converging from all parts of the sky to one dark point. In 1692, another thronged the streets of London with confused crowds. Earthquakes are far more common in the likes of Nepal (Photo by Omar Havana/Getty Images) While those quakes started a “year of earthquakes” across Britain in 1750, London … It was also felt in Lincolnshire. Some went to Windsor, or even further, and waited in the fields, or lay in boats all night. Many fashionable persons, wracked by 'superstitious fears, or their guilty conscience', waited in their coaches till dawn, expecting then to hear of the destruction of wicked London. The roads were thronged with vast numbers of people leaving the city. On Thursday, August 23, on a fine bright morning, the windows of Nottinghamshire rattled in another earthquake. You can unsubscribe at any time. How Thomas Becket’s feud with Henry II led to murder, 2020 round-up: we choose our top HistoryExtra podcasts of the year, 6 of the most catastrophic weather events in British history. In Lincoln’s Inn Fields, meanwhile, Newcastle House trembled so much that the Duke of Newcastle sent out his servant to enquire what had happened from a neighbour, the physicist Gowin Knight. In Lincolnshire, the earthquake was described by a, correspondent, 'E.A. Another philosopher called the airquake notion 'whimsical'. But it seemed that the Supreme Being's displeasure was not only with sinful London. The rumour was started by an army trooper who would eventually be despatched to Bedlam, London’s lunatic asylum. By the year’s end, almost 50 articles and letters on the subject had been read before the Royal Society, which were promptly published as an appendix to its Philosophical Transactions. Foundation of the British Museum. Nothing happened. Puzzled MPs were halted in their tracks, jolted against walls or felt papers and briefcases jerked from their hands. Description 16 p. : ill. ; 23cm. About 8 p.m., a not unfamiliar sight appeared in the north. In a letter to the clergy and inhabitants of London, he called on them to “give attention to all the warnings which God in his mercy affords to a sinful people...by two great shocks of an Earthquake”. I awaked a little after Five; I Open'd my Curtains, and observed the Sky hazy. Some went to Windsor, or even further, and waited in the fields, or lay in boats all night. By Bolívar’s own admission, the earthquake directly precipitated the republic’s collapse four months later under attack by Spanish forces. One earthquake was remarkable, but two earthquakes in a month was unprecedented. Cover label: Earthquake of April 5, 1750 (two letters from a gentleman in town to his friend in the country) Edition The eighth edition. People felt the chairs in which they sat shaking, and heard crockery rattling on their shelves. O that our repentance may prevent heavier marks of his displeasure!” At this time, despite Newton’s achievements in understanding the solar system, the science of the Earth had advanced no further than the musings of the ancient Greeks such as Aristotle, who postulated a ‘central fire’ inside underground caverns, which then collapsed, generating earthquakes. 800 000 km 2 and killing up to 100 000 people, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 is probably the greatest seismic disaster to have struck western Europe. Little did they know it, but Londoners … Charles Wesley, a founder of the growing Methodist movement, bluntly sermonised: “God is himself the Author, and sin is the moral cause.”. The earthquake, minor though it was, alarmed London. Captured by the Spanish, Bolívar was sent into exile, and settled in Cartagena. 1750. by Mr. disdained those explanations involving sulphur, explosions, or electrical fire, “which our modern philosophers make use of on all occasions, in explaining all the phenomena that appear in heavens above, or are felt in the earth beneath”. Some hailstones were three inches round, and flat, like ice cakes. 2 Items that are about the Temporal Earthquake, 1750 A Supplement to the Bishop of London's letter to the clergy and people of London and Westminster, on occasion of the late earthquakes… The lawyers in Westminster Hall were alarmed, and in Grosvenor Square residents ran out of their houses. John Wesley was in London (Charles currently serving in Bristol) and records the event in his Journal. The. The poets also had their say. Language English. The clergy began to prepare their sermons. It seemed that the tremor was confined to the London area; it was 'just perceived' at Richmond in Surrey and Bromley in Kent, and not felt at all at Barnet, Deal, and Canterbury. There were two types of earthquake wave, he said: a “tremulous” vibration within the Earth, followed by an undulation of the Earth’s surface – once again coming close to the truth. Still rose the morn; Security had lull’dThe scatter’d sons of vice in false repose,Heav’n of its dread intent no portents gave;…When, instantaneous, earth’s huge, cumb’rous massHeav’d, with strange pang, and deep resounds her groan.Anon., 1750EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENA. You're now subscribed to our newsletter. One 'little philosopher', however, sought to reassure Londoners that the second shock had not been an earthquake at all, but an 'airquake', caused by an 'explosion of combustible matter in the atmosphere'. The bishop indicated some of the modern manifestations that must have aroused divine displeasure: vast numbers of books which either disputed or ridiculed “the great truths of religion”, the swearing and blasphemy constantly heard on the streets of London, and 'the unnatural lewdness', for which God had destroyed Sodom, which could 'hardly be mentioned without offending chaste ears'. The last significant tremor to shake the capital had been 170 years earlier, in 1580. Steward to the earl of cardigan Steward Published: 01 January 1750 Page(s): 721 -723 However, the well-known theologian William Whiston (who had already one failed prediction to his name; the Earth was not destroyed by a comet on 16 October 1736) had not given up what might be described as hope. On February 8, 1750, London was hit by a significant, but not catastrophic, earthquake. "In the UK, we experience an earthquake … It is probable that...great concussions of the air do often, if not always, owe their origin to...exhalations lifting from below.” While the philosophers disputed, clergymen insisted that “Earthquakes are under the divine management, and are made use of by God to fulfil his pleasure”. The earthquake, minor though it was, alarmed London. Now the phenomenon was directly above Oxford, throwing out rays of multi-coloured light, and onlookers acclaimed it 'a most glorious appearance'. An economic powerhouse rose from the rubble of this natural disaster. On July 11, as if to offer the clergy a substitute for an earthquake, the streets of London were flooded in a violent storm of thunder, lightning, rain and hail. The Resource London (England) -- Earthquake, 1750 Label London (England) -- Earthquake, 1750 Focus. The poets also had their say. The last, and strongest, English earthquake of 1750 shook Northamptonshire and several other counties, just after noon on September 30. 1755. Thanks! Despite being a clergyman, Michell boldly left the divine out of his analysis: the first thinker about earthquakes to do so since the ancient Greeks. 11; quoted in Wiesner, ed., Discovering the Western Past). The seismic event was recorded around 11 p.m. Another philosopher called the airquake notion 'whimsical'. In a letter to the clergy and inhabitants of London, he called on them to “give attention to all the warnings which. 8/2/1750. Many people simply blanked the earthquakes from their memory, and no attempt was made to protect London’s buildings from future shocks. on ----- next'. On Thursday, February 8, about noon, the first earthquake of the year struck. So the city received a considerable jolt. For a moment everyone thought the great edifice was going to collapse on their heads. This wasn’t the first, nor the last, year in which the earth would move under London. Sherlock’s A Letter to the Clergy and Inhabitants of London and Westminster… on Occasion of the Late Earthquakes apparently sold 10,000 copies in two days, was reprinted several times, and is said to have sold more than 100,000 copies in less than six months. Church bells clanged. 61 issues of five newspapers included several reports from the disaster zone, 12 significantly more than had been reported about five years previously on two – though only weak – tremors in February and March 1750 in London itself. He believed that, as the shock was accompanied by a sound like rushing wind, it must have actually been caused by such a wind, which burst out of the earth somewhere in the 'dreary fens' of Lincolnshire. Others were not so sure. Earthquake felt in London . Earthquake felt in London . It was visible for about an hour, “and was tinged with so deep a scarlet, that it looked as if the city was in flames.” At Oxford on the same evening, a deep red light rose slowly in the north-east, sending out streamers of yellow and red light until it formed an 'iris' round the zenith. The night of January 16, 1750, was clear and calm at Stalbridge in Derbyshire. It seemed that the tremor was confined to the London area; it was 'just perceived' at Richmond in Surrey and Bromley in Kent, and not felt at all at Barnet, Deal, and Canterbury. I (1750). As for the ball of fire, another observer claimed that there was “a correspondence between the subterraneous air and the atmosphere. You will shortly receive a receipt for your purchase via email. He pointed out that the sound before the shock was more like distant thunder than a subterranean explosion. In Gray’s Inn, a lamp-lighter very nearly fell from his ladder. What happened on July 28, 1750. Just after 12.30pm on 8 February 1750, Britain’s lord chancellor was sitting in Westminster Hall with the Courts of King’s Bench and Chancery when the room began to shake. Was it another warning, delivered with more force? The damage happened to be worst in the areas controlled by Simón Bolívar’s recently proclaimed First Republic of Venezuela and relatively light in areas sympathetic to the colonial ruler, Spain – a fact immediately exploited by the local Catholic authorities, who supported Spain. London's 'enormous wickedness' had already received two divine warnings. On February 8, 1750, London was hit by a significant, but not catastrophic, earthquake. A seismic event that dealt Portugal’s empire a grievous blow. On May 15 (N.S. 1750. The official website for BBC History Magazine, BBC History Revealed and BBC World Histories Magazine, Save over 50% on a BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed gift subscription. © 2010 Chris Chatfield Contact Mevar _rwObsfuscatedHref0 = "mai";var _rwObsfuscatedHref1 = "lto";var _rwObsfuscatedHref2 = ":ch";var _rwObsfuscatedHref3 = "ris";var _rwObsfuscatedHref4 = "top";var _rwObsfuscatedHref5 = "her";var _rwObsfuscatedHref6 = "cha";var _rwObsfuscatedHref7 = "tfi";var _rwObsfuscatedHref8 = "eld";var _rwObsfuscatedHref9 = "@ho";var _rwObsfuscatedHref10 = "tma";var _rwObsfuscatedHref11 = "il. There was a 4.2 magnitude earthquake recorded off the coast of Newfoundland Sunday night, according to Earthquakes Canada. in his mercy affords to a sinful people...by two great shocks of an Earthquake”. Earthquake occurred in London on 8 February, 1750. a remarkable range of interests, including geology. Better known than the medieval quake were two which struck a month apart in 1750. John Wesley was in London (Charles currently serving in Bristol) and records the event in his Journal . It was later proved that this appearance had been seen from almost the whole of the British Isles, from as far south as Deal. At Leicester, a rushing noise was heard, and the houses heaved up and down. John Noorthouck, writing in A New History of London, states that letters to Rome described “a terrible earthquake in London, which occasioned [an] abundance of damage by the destruction of houses”. 8/3/1750. In Southwark, south of the Thames, a slaughterhouse with a hay-loft collapsed. I got up and found people running into the streets, but saw no mischief done: there has been some; two old houses flung down, several chimneys, and much china-ware.”, The president of the Royal Society, antiquarian Martin Folkes, was also in bed. A vast semi-circular arch, like a rainbow, but very much larger and of a vivid red colour, sent up wavering streams almost to the zenith. This is epitomised by Voltaire’s 1759 novel, Candide, satirising religious explanations of the disaster and the philosophy of optimism. After a few minutes the cone turned white and faded away. Did Venezuela’s agony lead to a political revolution? The second tremor had been more violent. In Leadenhall Street, part of a chimney fell. The shock was more violent than that of February 8. 3.6 magnitude earthquake 2011-01-03 21:03:09 UTC at 21:03 January 03, 2011 UTC Location: Epicenter at 54.169, -1.652 8.2 km from Ripon (5.2 miles) The cause of the outburst was the rarifaction of subterranean air by the heat of the season, for “such a dry and hot summer has not been known in the memory of man.”. Despite the minor damage, Londoners were worried. This article was first published in the April 2016 issue of BBC History Magazine. One of the society’s fellows was John Michell, a Cambridge astronomer who had no. An earthquake in Venezuela in 1812 destroyed much of the country’s buildings including those of its capital, Caracas. At Leicester House, home of the Prince of Wales, the foundations were believed to be sinking. Westminster Bridge is opened . Part of an old wall in Northampton was thrown down, a lady in Kelmarsh was tossed from her chair, and all over the shaken district people ran into the street. Near Holland House, in west London, the bailiff of Henry Fox, while counting his sheep, observed the dry, solid ground move like a quagmire or quicksand, causing much alarm among the animals and some crows nesting in nearby trees. The night of January 16, 1750, was clear and calm at Stalbridge in Derbyshire. Where? The summer was also remarkable for its thunderstorms. Some citizens, to the annoyance of the clergy, professed to be careless about the business, and sent each other cards: “I invite your ladyship to the. Then it was said that Isaac Newton, before his death in 1727, had predicted the jolt by calculating that Jupiter would approach close to Earth in 1750. And no attempt was made to introduce anti-seismic emergency and building regulations. One, musing in a ruined abbey during a thunderstorm, asked rhetorically; Meanwhile, in London, a 'crazy lifeguardman' (Trooper Mitchell, of Lord Delaware's regiment of Life Guards) had joined with the Bishop of London in predicting disaster. The shock had been felt in France, Belgium, and Holland. London’s 1692 shock was too distant to be remembered. Windows and beds had been shaken sideways, and, just before the shock, a 'vast ball of fire' had been seen in the sky to the west of London. Although Lisbon was gradually, and impressively, rebuilt under the near-dictatorship of the marquess of Pombal, the country continued to weaken economically, especially after Brazil gained its independence in 1822. Ten days earlier, another aurora had been seen, very red, whose rays met at the zenith; a description suspiciously reminiscent of the phenomenon seen at Liverpool on April 2. He remarked that the shock had been felt on the outskirts of London: “I sent a servant out about 7 o’clock, and he met a countryman, who was bringing a load of hay from beyond Highgate, and who was on the other side of the town when the shock happened; he did not, he said, feel it, as he was driving his waggon; but that the people he saw in the town of Highgate were all greatly surprised, saying they had had their houses very much shocked, and that the chairs in some were thrown about in their rooms.”. A rumour was propagated that earthquakes would occur monthly, which led to a mass exodus from London (and gridlock on the roads) on 8th April 1750. A third quake, with its epicentre at nearby Colchester, rattled the Houses of Parliament in 1884. Needless to say, there were no tremors. Affecting an area of ca. Crockery was thrown from household shelves; a lady of Piccadilly, a connoisseur of old china, had her collection instantly ruined. A poet of Norwich fired the first shot; Despite the minor damage, Londoners were worried. 1750. The bishop indicated some of the modern manifestations that must have aroused divine displeasure: vast numbers of books which either disputed or ridiculed “the great truths of religion”, the swearing and blasphemy constantly heard on the streets of London, and 'the unnatural lewdness', for which God had destroyed Sodom, which could 'hardly be mentioned without offending chaste ears'. An airquake was no more to be feared than a clap of thunder; it might throw down a few tottery structures, but also brought benefit by purifying the atmosphere. The servant found Knight busy investigating the signs of disturbance in his own residence, including a bed that had moved. 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