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Titel

Earthquakes

Jahr

1847

Ort

London

Nachweis

in: The Christian Miscellany, and Family Visiter 2 (Juni 1847), S. 194.

Sprache

Englisch

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Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung; Schmuck: Kapitälchen.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: VI.58
Dateiname: 1845-Les_tremblements_de-26-neu

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JUNE, 1847.|194|

|Spaltenumbruch|

EARTHQUAKES.

Before we quit this great phenomenon,which has been considered not so much inits individual, as in its general, physical, andgeognostical relations, we must advert to thecause of the indescribable, deep, and quitepeculiar impression which the first earth-quake we experience makes upon us, evenwhen it is unaccompanied by subterraneannoises. The impression here is not, I believe,the consequence of any recollection of de-structive catastrophes presented to our ima-gination by narratives of historical events:what seizes upon us so wonderfully is thedisabuse of that innate faith in the fixityof the solid and sure-set foundations of theearth. From early childhood we are habitu-ated to the contrast between the mobileelement, water, and the immobility of thesoil on which we stand. All the evidencesof our senses have confirmed this belief.But when suddenly the ground begins torock beneath us, the feeling of an unknown,mysterious power in nature coming intoaction, and shaking the solid globe, arises inthe mind. The illusion of the whole of ourearlier life is annihilated in an instant. Weare undeceived as to the repose of nature;we feel ourselves transported to the realm,and made subject to the empire, of destructiveunknown powers. Every sound, the slightestrustle in the air, sets attention on the stretch.We no longer trust the earth upon which westand. The unusual in the phenomenonthrows the same anxious unrest and alarmover the lower animals. Swine and dogs areparticularly affected by it; and the very|Spaltenumbruch| crocodiles of the Orinoco, otherwise as dumbas our little lizards, leave the shaken bed ofthe stream, and run bellowing into the woods.To man, the earthquake presents itself as anall-pervading unlimited something. Wecan remove from an active crater; from thestream of lava that is pouring down uponour dwelling we can escape; with the earth-quake we feel that whithersoever we fly we arestill on the hearth of destruction. Such amental condition, though evoked in our veryinnermost nature, is not, however, of longduration. When a series of lighter shocksoccur in a district one after another, everytrace of alarm soon vanishes among the in-habitants. On the rainless coasts of Peru,nothing is known of hail, nor of explosions oflightning and rolling thunder in the bosomof the atmosphere. The subterraneous noisethat accompanies the earthquake, comesin lieu of the thunder of the clouds. Useand wont for a series of years, and the veryprevalent opinion that dangerous earthquakesare only to be apprehended two or threetimes in the course of a century, lead theinhabitants of Lima scarcely to think moreof a slight shock of an earthquake than isthought of a hail-storm in the temperatezone. — Cosmos: a Survey of the GeneralPhysical History of the Universe. By Alex-ander von Humboldt.

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