The Earthquake

Abstract

ALL who are acquainted with the North of England are aware that the districts comprising the counties of Northumberland, Durham, and Yorkshire, are physically divided from that occupied by those of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire by a ridge or watershed, formed by the Pennine chain, which is a range of hills averaging 1,700 feet in height, composed of Lower Carboniferous strata, through the centre of which runs the Pennine or “Anticlinal Fault,” which has the effect of throwing the strata in a downwards direction to the east and to the west, like the slopes of the ridge of a roof of a house.