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As no account has been given in NATURE of a recent earthquake, perhaps room may be found for the following. I was standing near my garden door at 8.20 a.m. on Sunday, November 20, when the quiet was suddenly broken by a heavy smothered crash, followed by reverberations as in a clap of thunder of rather short duration. I felt no shaking of the ground, but many persons here felt it, and the shaking is stated to have been very marked near Dagnall, between here and Hemel Hempstead. The sound was like the falling in of an immense mass of rock—followed by echoes—in a cavern.
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SMITH, W. An Earthquake in England. Nature 37, 127 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037127b0
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