The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 A Nation Shaken

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This is the audio of the Wikipedia article about the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755. • The earthquake felt here, happened on the 14th of November, at three in the afternoon. It proceeded from the North, and lasted a minute. Extract of a Letter from Mons. Bonnet, F. R. S. to Mr. Trembley, F.R.S. Dated at Geneva, 30 January 1756 • December 16, 1756 There was felt, on the 19th of this month, at three in the morning, a shock of an earthquake, at Colen, Leige, Maestricht, in the country of Limburg, and, as appears, in all that between the Meuse and the Rhine. This shock continued but a short time; and there is no account at present of any damage done by it. One of almost the fame kind was felt in the same places on the 3d of June. You saw by the account, which I sent you on the 11nth of May, that earthquakes were very frequent in this country in the beginning of this year. The shock, which has been lately felt in these parts, as well as in Portugal, shews, that the cause of earthquakes is still active. • Letter from Mr. Abraham Trembley, F. R. S. to Thomas Birch, D. D. Secretary to the Royal Society • Rev. Samuel Chandler published an account of it in 1755. • https://archive.org/details/philtrans... • Joseph Salvador wrote an account of it in 1761 • https://archive.org/details/philtrans... • Reverend John Michell, M. A. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge wrote about it in 1759 • https://archive.org/details/jstor-105401

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