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A SERIES of slight earthquake shocks have lately occurred in this district, viz. January 3, 2.15 p.m. at Severn Junction(E.J.L.); January 4, 11 a.m., Itton Court, Chepstow (a heavy plant stag in a greenhouse was seen to move four times by Mr. J. Corn and the Rev. N. S. Barthropp); January 5, between 2 and 3 p.m., and again on the 6th (a little earlier), Llanthony Monastery, (a rumbling noise on the Black Mountains near the monastery, Mr. P. E. Hill); January 14, 6.55 p.m., a shock lasting more than a second, Bigswear House, Coleford, Mr. J. V. Newbery (Mr. Newbery has had experience of earthquakes, from a long residence in Japan).
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LOWE, E. Earthquake Shocks. Nature 47, 270 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047270c0
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