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I WAS interested to read the note in NATURE of October 21 (p. 208) referring to an earthquake in the Lake District, Cumberland, on October 2, at 3.15 a.m′. My wife and I spent some weeks at Seatoller, Borrowdale, leaving on October 2. Early in the morning of that day we were awakened by a strange noise and the house vibrating. The noise and vibration were so completely similar to what occurs in my own house when the hot-water boiler is overheated and steam, condensing in the pipes, causes “hammering”, that I was on the point of getting up to turn on the bathroom tap, when it ceased. As we were leaving in the morning the proprietors inquired if we had heard the noise in the night, and I replied at once that I had heard the hammering in the pipes of the hot-water system, but was told that it was quite impossible for the water to have been hot at the time. I had no idea of the true explanation until I read the note referred to. Seatoller is about 30 miles S.S.W. of Carlisle and 4½ miles N.N.E. of Scafell Pike. Possibly it may be of interest to record that at this place the earthquake was accompanied by concussions and vibrations sufficient to waken the inhabitants.
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SODDY, F. The Cumberland Earthquake of October 2. Nature 96, 229 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096229a0
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