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Gentleman's Magazine 1790 p.463

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Earthquake, Arnside


COUNTRY NEWS

A very singular phaenomenon happened at Arnside, in Westmoreland. Very early in the morning of the 6th of March, a noise louder than thunder was heard issuing from the earth, which so much alarmed the inhabitants, that they fled in consternation from their houses to a considerable distance. When the approach of day-light made objects discernible, a subterraneous chasm of great depth appeared to be the effect of this convulsion of nature. - Several cattle and horses are missing, and are supposed to have been swallowed up. - From all the circumstances that can be collected, it appears to have been one of those local earthquakes that sometimes happen in particular parts of the country, without being felt at much distance from the scene.
Earthquake? or a landslide.
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