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ON the morning of the 11th instant at 4.30 A.M., a smart shock, accompanied by a rumbling noise, like that of a waggon rolling over rough pavement, travelling, as is usual here, from east to west, woke up the inhabitants of St. Thomas. It was followed within a few seconds by another shock, to the full as abrupt in its character as the first; the movement appeared to be not so much undulatory as vertical.
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PALGRAVE, W. Earthquake in St. Thomas. Nature 9, 483–484 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009483a0
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