P- and S-waves from today’s (10:42:04 UTC 2026/10/12) M2.5 earthquake near Buttercrambe, ~15km ENE of York, England, recorded on my @raspishake.bsky.social in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England (about 144km SW of the event).
Ian G. Stimpson
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Seismologist, geophysicist, structural geologist, geoconservationist, not necessarily in that order.
![Effects in Kent of the Hereford 1863 earthquake described in a letter from Charles Dickens to his Sister-in-Law Georgy Hogarth
[Sidenote: Miss Hogarth.]
GAD'S HILL PLACE, HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT,
_Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 1863._
MY DEAREST GEORGY,
You will see by to-day's _Times_ that it _was_ an earthquake that shook
me, and that my watch showed exactly the same time as the man's who
writes from Blackheath so near us--twenty minutes past three.
It is a great satisfaction to me to make it out so precisely; I wish you
would enquire whether the servants felt it. I thought it was the voice
of the cook that answered me, but that was nearly half an hour later. I
am strongly inclined to think that there is a peculiar susceptibility in
iron--at all events in our part of the country--to the shock, as though
there were something magnetic in it. For, whereas my long iron bedstead
was so violently shaken, I certainly heard nothing rattle in the room.
I will write about my return as soon as I get on with the still unbegun
"Uncommercial."
Ever affectionately.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzfzxwhvzip7hjths5oe6npc/bafkreifyxgmqxkzcsd5thuyynmbxrewm57zn4r66ky4ioemexjf66u7zu4)
