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ON the morning of January 22 a shock of earthquake was felt throughout Northern Switzerland, and at many places in Southern Germany from Ulm to Strassburg. At Basel the shock was strong enough to awaken many persons, and a crackling noise was heard by almost all observers. The direction of the shock appears to have been from north-east to south-west. The seismometer at the Bernoullianum Observatory indicated 46 min. 16 sec. after midnight (mean European time). According to newspaper reports, the shock was more severely felt in the neighbourhood of Freiburg than here.
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RIGGENBACH, A. Earthquake of January 22. Nature 53, 318 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053318a0
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