| Show THE DP or A EAR earthquake tir vir quare QUAKE 1 ranis paris ris and its iti environs were visited sep 14 by an extremely rare rate menon in that couf country itry an earthquake consisting of five ar or six distinct oscillations wurther further artic artio ulars tend to sho show that the commotion was much more mone serious than was at first supposed at paris it was vas chiefly felt ilithe in the passy where no 4 in the rue eue was so alarmingly sh aken akon th eliat at tho the inmates ran out gut into the th street estreet in a fright the house has since been reported in a dangerous state at boulogne and auteuil dauteuil the floors communicated a rocking motion to the beds and glasses lasses and pla pia plates tes were knocked together at Mon st cloud ville avray davray d devres eureane su reane rean e yerres berres brunoy brudnoy Mon gerou geron cretell Cre teil tell ac similar disturbances were ver e experienced x perlen ced eed but from the accounts tb that at have llave now reached us ua it would appear that the commotion was felt all over tho the west of france if a line be drawn on the map from paris to clermon and thence to 1 ux it would mark the limits of the phenomenon pretty nearly com eom besides those ahde towns Oi orleans lealis tours angers nantes Rouen lle tle le lae mans mails I 1 vendome ac in paris the direction of I 1 impre pre pro fumed to have been from east to west Nv weather eather cloudy in the east cast the barome ter fell six millimetres milli metres etres thermometer unchanged in the de departments part ments the shocks are variously stated to have been from west to east and from east to west at the waters of the charette Cha rente rento fell sive live centimetres centi metres at the moment of the shock and did not rise a again g a 1 n to their usual level levels till fill an ail hour I 1 later a t e ri several accidents are reported to have taken places at clermont the tile walls or of the tha powder magazine aro are said sald to have been overthrown aest marc in the loiret a milk woman and a costermonger were thrown down by the violence of the shock windowpanes were vere broken some tiles fell here and there and several doors were forced open at limoges a piece of a cornice from the fhe top of or a house kouse fell into the street and a conlee house keeper heeper in that town found all his bis been beer had turned in connect connection ion iou with the phenomenon of the it may be stated khaton the dinst an eaith euith earthquake quake was experienced in the department of the deux beux devres altogether considering that the paris basin does docs not present any very volcanic characteristics it is not impossible that this presumed med earthquake was only a commotion of the atmosphere in a highly electr electric lo state this supposition ia is the tite more probable from the statement that 11 belna beina test paper assumed a deep blue tint during the phenomenon and that in those houses where birds were kept the latter were bi highly lily illy excited before the commotion and made efforts to escape from the cages the phenomenon with which we have just been visit visited ed cannot be compared in intensity to any of those on record even everi in our days the most violent earthquakes of later years are those of bf the neapolitan province of basilicata in 1857 and that of mendoza in south america which in a few seconds caused the death of persons |
