Electronic Supplement to
Reverberations on the Watery Element: A Significant, Tsunamigenic Historical Earthquake Offshore the Carolina Coast

by Susan E. Hough, Jeffrey Munsey, and Steven N. Ward

Table S4. Earthquakes felt in Bermuda.

Salem Mercury, April 14, 1789 (Salem, MA)

SHOCKS IN BERMUDA

ST. GEORGE’s (Bermuda) Jan. 24. “We felt two shocks of an earthquake here on the 26th of December, between 5 and 6 o’clock in the morning; the last shock was so violent as to be felt all through the island, but we do not hear of any damage being done by it. The inhabitants were terribly frightened.” (Story reported from Bermuda)

Impartial Register, April 23, 1801 (Salem, MA)

Extract of a letter from Bermuda of the 12th March, 1801. “In the couple of last month we were alarmed in this island with several shocks of an earthquake. The last was the most severe. It continued a full half a minute.” (Story reported from Bermuda)

Bermuda Royal Gazette, 11/22/1831 (St.George, Bermuda)

On Thursday morning, the 19th., [1801] about ten minutes after 9 o’clock, a violent earthquake was felt in St. George’s; it came with a rumbling noise similar to thunder and lasted several seconds; it shook the homes very much and was very visibly felt in vessels and boats in the water. Its direction appeared as coming from the NW. It was also felt very heavily throughout these islands.

Nature, v. 29, 55-57, 1883.

Earthquake. “A very unusual event occurred here on the 20th of this month, in a shock of an earthquake, which however was slight; no life was lost, nor serious damage done to buildings; but the shock, which lasted less than a minute, at about quarter past one p.m. was universally and unmistakably felt throughout the colony. It is said to be only the third time that any earthquake has been experienced in Bermuda in the last forty years.”

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