Sally Furniss
Well-known member
"It came as they usually do, without warning. A loud report like a cannon ball hitting the house, then a long rumbling noise like a long, heavy train passing over a wooden bridge, shaking violently all the time."
It could be a description of the quakes which have battered Canterbury in the last nine months, but it was written more than a century ago by one of the region's founders.
Jane Deans, the matriarch of the founding Canterbury family, penned the description of a magnitude-4.7 quake that rattled Riccarton House on June 5, 1869 ? an event possibly on the same fault that ruptured with deadly effect under Christchurch in February.
more http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/5222590/Quake-sounds-familiar
It could be a description of the quakes which have battered Canterbury in the last nine months, but it was written more than a century ago by one of the region's founders.
Jane Deans, the matriarch of the founding Canterbury family, penned the description of a magnitude-4.7 quake that rattled Riccarton House on June 5, 1869 ? an event possibly on the same fault that ruptured with deadly effect under Christchurch in February.
more http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/5222590/Quake-sounds-familiar