EARTHQUAKES IN ENGLAND.
In connection with earthquakes in England the Wellington Post says : The last on record, previous to the present, was a slight series of shocks felt in Inverary and the west of Scotland on the 28th November, 1880. On the 22nd March, 1871, earth disturbances occurred in the N.W. districts of England sufficient to shake houses and break crockery, while slight shocks were experienced in 1868, and also in 1863. So far, as we can ascertain, however, we have to go back to the 16th century before finding any record of anything like serious damage being caused in England through terrestrial displacements. In 1580 on 6th April, a notable earthquake was felt which destroyed part of St. Paul’s, and the Temple Church, London. Still more severe were the memorable “ shakes ” of 1328 and 1274, the latter of which destroyed Glastonbury. There are some even earlier than this recorded, but this catalogue is sufficient to show that although it has been rarely felt of late years, the phenomenon was by no means infrequent in the earlier ages. In fact Mrs Somerville, the well-known authority on Physical Geography, states that about 255 earthquakes have been recorded in the British Isles.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2394, 1 May 1884, Page 2
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