 ... resembling the rolling of thunder, but louder, and of longer continuance, than that heard within the tropics in time of storms. This noise preceded a perpendicular motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer....  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 2731819Full view - About this book
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 lehte
...motion of three or four seconds, followed by aa undulatory .movement somewhat longer. The shocks were . in opposite directions, from north to south, and from...other. The town of Caraccas was entirely overthrown. Thousands of the inhabitants (between nine and ten thousand) were buried under the ruins of the houses... | |
 | 1819 - 596 lehte
...motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulalory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from,...other. The town of Caraccas was entirely overthrown. Thousands of the inhabitants (between nine and ten thousand) were buried under the ruins of the houses... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 lehte
...motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulalory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from...other. The town of Caraccas was entirely overthrown. Thousands of the inhabitants (between nine and ten thousand) were buried under the ruins of the houses... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 lehte
...motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from...other. The town of Caraccas was entirely overthrown. Thousands of the inhabitants (between nine and ten thousand) were buried under the ruins of the houses... | |
 | William Bingley - 1820 - 368 lehte
...and from east to west. Within the space of a single minute, the whole town was overthrown; and near ten thousand of the inhabitants were buried under...out; but the crowd was so great in the churches, that betwixt three and four thousand persons were crushed by the fall of their vaulted jroofs. Two of the... | |
 | 1820 - 848 lehte
...motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from...other. The town of Caraccas was entirely overthrown. Thousands of the inhabitants (between nine and ten thousand) were buried under the ruins of the houses... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 lehte
...motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from...beneath upward, and undulations crossing each other. 266 AMERICAN VARIETIES, &C. The town of Cameras was entirely overthrown. Between nine and ten thousand... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 470 lehte
...motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from...other. The town of Caraccas was entirely overthrown. Thousands of the inhabitants (between nine and ten thousand) were buried under the ruins of the houses... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 lehte
...seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat Ibiiger, The shocks were in opposite directions, from south, and from east to west. Nothing could resist...other. The town of Caraccas was entirely overthrown. Thousands of the inhabitants (between nine and ten thousand) were ;buried under the ruins of the houses... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 lehte
...motion of three or four seconds,. followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from...other. The town of Caraccas was entirely overthrown. Thousands of the inhabitants (between nine, and ten thousand) were buried under the ruins of the houses... | |
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