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    The document describes an earthquake that occurred one night in an unnamed town. It began with a roaring noise in the distance that grew louder as the earthquake approached over about a minute. A neighbor of the author's stopped on the road when he heard the noise, knowing it was an earthquake. He estimated he had about 30 seconds before the shaking reached him. The initial motion of the earth was described as an undulation or rolling swell that was large enough the neighbor had to hold onto something to avoid being thrown down. Nearby trees waved about 10 feet during the shaking.

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    The document describes an earthquake that occurred one night in an unnamed town. It began with a roaring noise in the distance that grew louder as the earthquake approached over about a minute. A neighbor of the author's stopped on the road when he heard the noise, knowing it was an earthquake. He estimated he had about 30 seconds before the shaking reached him. The initial motion of the earth was described as an undulation or rolling swell that was large enough the neighbor had to hold onto something to avoid being thrown down. Nearby trees waved about 10 feet during the shaking.

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    The document describes an earthquake that occurred one night in an unnamed town. It began with a roaring noise in the distance that grew louder as the earthquake approached over about a minute. A neighbor of the author's stopped on the road when he heard the noise, knowing it was an earthquake. He estimated he had about 30 seconds before the shaking reached him. The initial motion of the earth was described as an undulation or rolling swell that was large enough the neighbor had to hold onto something to avoid being thrown down. Nearby trees waved about 10 feet during the shaking.

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    The document describes an earthquake that occurred one night in an unnamed town. It began with a roaring noise in the distance that grew louder as the earthquake approached over about a minute. A neighbor of the author's stopped on the road when he heard the noise, knowing it was an earthquake. He estimated he had about 30 seconds before the shaking reached him. The initial motion of the earth was described as an undulation or rolling swell that was large enough the neighbor had to hold onto something to avoid being thrown down. Nearby trees waved about 10 feet during the shaking.

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    The night, in which this earthquake happened,


    was petfeetly calm and krene. In thc evening dame
    was a fog over the marches bordering on the risen
    Charles, which runs through this town : but this I
    found inanely diaipated at the time of the earth-
    quake, the air being then quite clear, and the moon,
    which wanted Ina 36k of the full, 'lining very
    bright. The earthquake began with a roaring noik
    in the NM. like thunder at a diflance ; and this grew
    fiercer, as the earthquake drew nearer ; whiCh was
    almoft a minute in coming to this place, es near es
    I can collea from one of my neighbours, who was
    then on the road in this town. He tells me, tins,
    as loon as he heard thc unite, he llopt, knowing,
    that it was an earthquake, and waiting for it ; an-d
    he reckoned he had flood fiill about 3., n hen the
    noik (mused to overtake hint, and the earth began
    to tremble under him : but, as I doubted, whether it
    were fo long. I counted feveral numbers to him as
    (lowly as a clock beats records ; and then he t'aid,
    Inc believed he could have counted half an hundeed,
    at that rate, before the noife and (hake came up to
    him. By his account, as well a, that of others, the
    firtl motion of the earth was what may he called a
    md(e, on rather an undulation ; and refembled (to
    ufe his own comparifon) that of a lung roiling,
    (welling fea ; and the (well was fis great, that he
    was obliged to run and catch hold of tomerbing, to
    prevent being thrown down. The tops of two trees
    oink by him, one of which is a p, the other 3o feet
    high, he thinks waved at haft ten feet (and I depend
    on his judgment in this particular, beicaule he judeed
    right of the height of die Ines, as / found by atfual
    mentista.

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