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ON Sunday, February 10, at 10.40 p.m., there was felt here a shock as of a heavy falling body, which caused the windows to rattle loudly. Two or three seconds later a second thud-like shock was felt of somewhat greater intensity than the first. This was followed by gentle but distinct tremors, lasting, perhaps, twenty or thirty seconds more. The weather was calm at the time; the heavy snow-fall had just ceased; barometer rising after the considerable depression which had occurred during the day. The sounds appeared to come from the north-east, as if a heavy body had fallen outside a window having that aspect. Several other persons name the same quarter as that whence the sounds seemed to proceed, and in one instance, in a room having several aspects, there was a distinct statement that the north windows were the first to shake, then those in the south-west, thus indicating a possible line of movement. In most cases no direction was rioted. Persons down-stairs thought something had fallen above, those in the upper stories rushed down to see what had happened below. Others, again, felt surrounded by the unwonted movement. A heavy slip of snow from the roof seemed to occur, as first thought, to most, then a colliery explosion—there are two coal-beds near—and finally an earthquake.
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CLUNN, T. The Earthquake in Lancashire. Nature 39, 390 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039390a0
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