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The East Anglian Earthquake.
the front window was cracked across; window faces nearly
N.E. At Mrs. Andrews's, 55, High Street, a kitchen clock
on a shelf against a wall facing about S.E. fell forwards off
the shelf, and things generally in the house were much
shaken. The driver of the Maldon train is reported to have
felt the rocking of the engine ; direction of railway N.W.
and S.E. Mr. E. A. Fitch states that he was on the sea-
wall, looking across the Blackwater at the time, and felt or
heard nothing, but saw two barges coming down the river
move some yards back towards the N.W. without any
apparent cause. At Brick House the effects were very slight,
the movement of the stable alarming two boys, and things in
the house being made to rattle. Mr. Fitch adds that it was
nearly high tide, and all the people in boats on the river
heard the rumbling, and some thought they had struck
suddenly upon a sandbank. The Stansgate coastguards
rowed ashore, thinking that a torpedo had exploded some-
where. No trustworthy evidence respecting any movement
of the water in the estuary could be obtained.
On May 10th Mr. W. Cole and I visited this town, at the
invitation of Mr. Fitch, in order to attend a meeting con-
vened by the Mayor on behalf of the Earthquake Belief
Fund, and we were enabled to gather a few additional details.
At the " Old Star" Inn (Mr. James Eves) a clock was stopped
at about 9.17, plane of vibration N. and S.; three 36-gallon
casks in the bar were rocked to and fro, and a cockatoo was
thrown off its perch. At cottages in the Mill Road bells were
rung and crockery rattled. Mr. S. Stratford, plumber,
noticed that the articles appeared to swing from N. to S.
Mr. Eves informed us that two clocks swinging N.E. and
S.W. stopped, and clocks vibrating E. and W. were un-
affected. Mr. Float reported that in a house near the station
two clocks vibrating N.W. and S.E. were not stopped, whilst
in a neighbouring house two clocks swinging NE. and S.W.
were both stopped at 9.20.
Manningtree.—Shock felt with some force; no damage,
Clocks stopped at 9.18. The Ipswich train, waiting in the
station, was caused to oscillate, and the passengers were