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IN your issue of the 31st ult. is an extract from a letter which appeared in the Times a day or two before, giving a very circumstantial and a somewhat sensational account of an earthquake which took place at Worthing, at 3.45 on Monday morning, the 28th of August. Is it not possible that there may be some connection between the said earthquake and the circumstances narrated as under in the Brighton Gazette of the Thursday following? If so, might it not be on the whole more prudent of correspondents of the Times or other papers, before they rush frantically into print on such subjects, just to put a question or two to some imperturbable old fisherman (if they be shaken out of their wits again at a watering place) instead of appealing to hysterical ladies and excitable old gentlemen for their notes of an event of great scientific interest?
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PANKHURST, E. The Earthquake at Worthing. Nature 4, 385–386 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004385e0
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