Comments on: Major landslip on south Dorset coast http://dlesb.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/major-landslip-on-south-dorset-coast/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:02:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Brian Earl http://dlesb.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/major-landslip-on-south-dorset-coast/#comment-53 Brian Earl Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:02:27 +0000 http://dlesb.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-53 I'm unaware of the Stoke Abbott earthquake, but there was a significant landslip there on Friday afternoon during torrential rain. Might a similar thing have happened 400 years ago - and which was either dramatically more serious or dramatically exaggerated?? I'm a keen, if amateur, local historian and I'd have expected something as major as a farmhouse-flattening earthquake to have cropped up somewhere in the annals, but no. That said, a "mere" landslip causing such damage ought to have been recorded by somebody too! I’m unaware of the Stoke Abbott earthquake, but there was a significant landslip there on Friday afternoon during torrential rain.

Might a similar thing have happened 400 years ago – and which was either dramatically more serious or dramatically exaggerated??

I’m a keen, if amateur, local historian and I’d have expected something as major as a farmhouse-flattening earthquake to have cropped up somewhere in the annals, but no. That said, a “mere” landslip causing such damage ought to have been recorded by somebody too!

]]> By: Peter Laurie http://dlesb.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/major-landslip-on-south-dorset-coast/#comment-50 Peter Laurie Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:18:25 +0000 http://dlesb.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-50 Does anyone know of an earthquake in west dorset about 1600AD? I was told that it had flattened a farmhouse at Stoke Abbot about 400 years ago. Does anyone know of an earthquake in west dorset about 1600AD? I was told that it had flattened a farmhouse at Stoke Abbot about 400 years ago.

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