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The Daily Dispatch: September 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], The late earthquake. (search)
second. They were accompanied by the usual tumbling noise, and were sufficiently sever to rock the water sewer in its basin and jar the furniture of the chamber. The sound of the earthquake through the air continued audibly some seconds after the tremor had ceased. To one who had experienced several hundred analogous phenomena or nearly every degree of violence, that on Saturday was unmistakable. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Times says: An earthquake at Branch Hill, in Miami Valley, twenty miles east of Cincinnati, on Saturday morning, August 31st, at 12 minutes past 5 o'clock, was so severe as to shake the house, cause the windows to rattle, and wake the sleepers by the motion of their beds. After the first severe shock, there was almost a total cessation of the vibratory motion for a few seconds, when it was resumed with less violence, terminating in a slight tremor, the whole duration one minute or more. The Times add: The shock alluded to, was felt