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 Title: “An Earthquake in England” 英國地震 Year: 1884 Volume: 1 Page Number: 27 Caption Translation: In the east part of England on the twenty seventh day of the third month at nine thirty in the morning an earthquake hit. It was particularly strong in Ipswich and Colchester. When it started the local bells began to make noise, and presently the doors shook and things within homes flew around. There was one large church in Colchester which had a tower fifteen zhang [50 meters] tall which suddenly began to lean and then collapsed. The church broke into fine powder which covered many local residents. After a short while, people were crying and running wildly in a panic to avoid the debris. As it was, it is still fortunate that although there were innumerable people who received wounds on that day, only a small child and a woman were killed by the earthquake. Were it to happen in the dark of night, this disaster probably would have been even more fierce, but even this one was still an extreme disaster. Translator: Paul Vierthaler, revised by Peter C. Perdue |
Caption Text: 英國東邊地方於三月廿七日早九點半鐘地震其伊潑蘇依出與戈吉思德兩 爲尤甚焉 始則鐘鐸錚然作響, 俄而門戶震撼器皿。 徙移戈吉思德有大禮拜堂一所, 有塔高十五丈, 突然傾塌禮拜堂碎成齏粉, 居民亦覆壓不少。 一時奔避倉皇號哭徧野然猶幸在日間受傷之人雖不計其數而震死者則僅一小孩一婦人而已。 設在黑夜, 其禍當更有烈者, 然亦非常之灾已 View on Yale Visual Resources |
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| illustrations from the 1898 edition of the Dianshizhai huabao, generously provided by the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University Massachusetts Institute of Technology © 2015 Visualizing Cultures  |
| “An Earthquake in England,” 1884 (page 27), [dz_v01_029] |