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NY00: earthquake 17551117 1900
locality:-   Irton
locality:-   Irton Hall
civil parish:-   Irton with Santon (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   earthquake epicentre
locality type:-   earthquake plus
coordinates:-   NY09750029
1Km square:-   NY0900
10Km square:-   NY00
references:-   British Geological Survey 2010

hearsay:-  
Violent shock about 7pm:-
"Several farmhouses in that parish and neighbourhood were very much shook and torn by it. ... [and at Iton Hall] furniture tumbled about the floor, to the great terror of the family"

Melville, Charle: 1986: Historical Earthquakes in Northern England: TransCWAAS: vol.86: pp.193-219
: 1755 (6 Dec):: Newcastle Journal:: (gives wrong date)

date:-   1755
period:-   1750s
period:-   18th century, late
event:-   earthquake
 

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