Claryville Earthquake
Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 January 1877, page 2
WAS IT AN EARTHQUAKE
Claryville Ky. January 24, 1877. To the Editor of the Enquirer:
I wish to report to you quite a phenomenon that happened in this neighborhood yesterday evening. This place is about fifteen miles back of Cincinnati in the upper end of Campbell County. About 4 o'clock yesterday evening the community at this point became quite excited at a low, rumbling noise, directly south, which lasted about one minute.
It sounded very like distant thunder, but the sky was perfectly clear and it was very cold. Some of the neighbors and a party by the name of Leander Black went into convulsions, thinking the world was coming to an end. Parties living three miles due west heard the same noise, and reports coming in from all sections show the people to be very much excited and at a loss to account for the strange occurrence.
The earth was felt to quake and my stone house rattled and the floor trembled as though a veritable earthquake had occurred. My only theory of the matter is that the shock we felt was the effect of an earthquake at some great distance away. Please give us your idea and oblige a subscriber to your valuable paper.
W T Clary