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FROM the inquiries which have been made it is now ascertained that the loud noise—as of an explosion—heard over so wide an area on the morning of November 20, and referred to by Mr. Worthington G. Smith in your issue of last week (p. 127), was due to the breaking up of a large meteor, which crossed the north of Herts from east to west, upon a line of which the extreme points are approximately Saffron Walden, in Essex, and Swindon, in Oxfordshire. The meteor was seen by one observer from Hertford, and probably it would have been generally noticed but for the foggy state of the atmosphere. I have undertaken to investigate this matter as far as Herts is concerned, and shall be very much obliged to any of your readers who can give me assistance if they will send a note of their observations, especially as to the direction from which the shock they experienced appeared to reach them.
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FORDHAM, H. The Supposed Earthquake in England. Nature 37, 151 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037151b0
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