104 The East Anglian Earthquake.
Lowe, of Gosfield Hall, has furnished the following ac-
count :—
" The earthquake was distinctly felt on Tuesday morning
the 22nd, with powerful effect at 9.23 a.m. The vibratory
motion lasted about ten seconds, during which the absence of
wind was remarkable, and all phenomena carefully noted at
once proclaimed it an earthquake shock. Our old hall shook
on the S. and E. sides with undulatory motion, many of the
floors and walls apparently upheaving and subsiding with
manifest agitation, the pictures in the different rooms bulging
forward and shaking in their frames : the lake was tremulous
with an upheaving oscillation ; clocks stopped (facing the E.)
and glass clattered everywhere. The barometer, a reading of
which I had only taken a few minutes previously, stood
without change or apparent depression at 29.808, attached
therm. 47°. The thermometer in the air was 43°. The vane
stood at N.N.E. The time was taken from a clock corrected
by Cambridge time, sent by my son in a letter that morning,
he having left the previous day and been asked to do so.
None of the clocks facing W. stopped.41 No structural
damage was done at Gosfield, and no individual out of doors
seemed to feel it like those within."
Gosfield Hall is 16 miles N.W. of Colchester. Con-
firmatory evidence has been supplied by the Rev. S. Parkinson,
of the Manse, who compared the sound to that of a rapidly
approaching train. Mr. P. N. Williams gives the time as
9.20 and the duration as two seconds; "the entire house
was shaken and bric-a-brac displaced."
Harlow,—Mr. George Hart reports that the shock was only
felt very slightly in a few instances in this neighbourhood.
Harwich.—Shock felt with some severity ; in one house a
person was thrown down ; bells rung and crockery and glass
broken. No structural damage. Shock felt severely also at
Parkeston.
Havering.—Mr. G. T. Hope reports that the shock was not
felt here.
Heybridge, near Maldon.—Shock distinct, accompanied by
rumbling sound. At the Towers the rings on the cornice
41 The plane of vibration of the pendulum is the same whether a
clock faces E. or W.—R. M.