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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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An earthquake struck Bengal on April 2, 1762, affecting Calcutta mildly with water agitation killing fish, but devastating Daeco (400-500 killed) and Chittagong (earth openings, factory collapse). Reported from Fort William.
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April 19, 1762.
On the 2d of this month we had a pretty smart shock of an Earthquake here, which lasted three or four minutes. The river, and all the ponds in and about Calcutta, were strongly affected, the waters rushing backwards and forwards with great violence, rising in many places nine or ten feet perpendicular, and continuing in this agitation for near a quarter of an hour. However no mischief happened here, except that numbers of fish were killed. However at Daeco and Chittagong, two subordinate settlements to the eastward, the Earthquake was much more violent. At the former place 400 or 500 People were killed; at the latter the earth opened in many places, quantities of water gushed out, great chasms remained unclosed, reports under ground were heard as loud as the noise of cannon, and the Factory, a brick building, was shaken down.
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Bengal
Event Date
April 2, 1762
Outcome
in calcutta: numbers of fish killed, no human mischief. in daeco: 400 or 500 people killed. in chittagong: earth opened with water gushing, great chasms unclosed, underground reports like cannon, factory shaken down.
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Earthquake shock lasted 3-4 minutes in Calcutta, agitating waters in river and ponds, rising 9-10 feet, for quarter hour. More violent in Daeco and Chittagong to the eastward.