EARTHQUAKES IN AUSTRALIA

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 255, 30 March 1860, Page 3

EARTHQUAKES IN AUSTRALIA

Sydney Morning Herald.

Yass.—On Sunday evening, the 4th instant, several shocks of earthquake occurred in this district. A double shook took place exactly afc ten minutes past eight p.m., and the concussion caused very considerable alarm. ' A number of those attending service in the Church of England, and in the Wesleyan Chapel, rushed to the doors: and in the former church the excitement was so great that the services were soon after terminated; in the latter church, bow ever, the religious services were resumed. Exactly at 945 p.m. a slighter shock was felt; aud at midnight-it again occurred. The shock seemed to.proceed from south to north. No injury was done to property. On Monday and Tuesday nights a repetition of the shocks was distinctly felt, but not so violently as on Sunday evening. At Queanbeyan' the earthquake was slightly felt at a quarter-past eight o'clock on Sunday evening ; and at Gundagai and Goulburn it occurred at about the same hour. From this it would appear that the district around Yass received the shock more violently than elsewhere, and and some few seconds earlier than it occurred at the other places named. The eaithquake occasioned a report not unlike a double discharge from a large sized cannon, and the ground seemed to move from under the feet. As stove at the Cricketers' Arms, which weigh about 16 cwt., was removed two inches from where it was fteed ; an upright post supporting the roof of another place was split from end to end ; some of the mortar was forced from between the stonework of the English church; and the tinware, earthenware, arid glassware, jingled in most houses. Many persons were in great terror at the unusual visitation, and several females, who happened to be in the street at the time, ran shrieking towards their homes.— Yass

Courier

Wheeo. —A correspondent informs us that a strong shock of earthquake was felt at Wheeo on Sunday evening, the 4th instant.- Tables, chairs, and forms shook, plates on the dressers rattled one against another as though they would fall to the ground ; in one house, in particular, persons laid hold of the chimney posts ; others grasped firm hold of the stools they were sitting on, determined, as it were, that whatever might go they would not; small stones and round pieces of wood that had been lying on the shingles where the skillions project out (which had been thrown there by boys) came rolling down, creating no little surprise. As may he supposed, so unexpected a phenomenon .caused much sensation.-— Goulburn Chronicle.

Burrowa.—A correspondent thus writes: — "There was a shock of an earthquake felfc here on Sunday night last, at about a quarter to eight o'clock. The like has not been felt here before. It shook buildings, and even the ground at the time was felt vibrating.— -Ibid.

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