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 NY71
NY71: earthquake 17900227 0400
locality:-   Great Ormside
civil parish:-   Ormside (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   earthquake epicentre, hoax
locality type:-   earthquake plus
1Km square:-   NY7015 (approx) 
10Km square:-   NY71
references:-  
Haining, Peter: 1978: Great English Earthquake

hearsay:-  
This is described by Peter Haining as producing two long fissures 'into which houses and cattle sank', and that the Gentlemen's Magazine reported it with a violent shock and explosion. I have been unable to trace the report in the Gents Mag.
The earthquake report was declared to be a hoax in the Newcastle Chronicle, 13 March 1790.

date:-   1790
period:-   18th century, late
period:-   1790s
event:-   earthquake
 

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