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As India’s North East gets a jolt, an administrator’s memoirs recall the Great Earthquake of 1897 ‘The roads yawned open with cracks beneath our feet,’ recounted British civil servant Henry Cotton. Houses destroyed in Shillong the Great Earthquake in 1897. | @GeoSciTweeps via Twitter “Without a warning and with no premonitory rumble, such as is the ordinary precursor of an earthquake, I heard a clattering on the roof, I felt like swaying of the earth, and the high spirited pony. I was driving dashed off ventre a terre like an arrow from bow. Amid a terrific roar of indescribable elements, we galloped along, missing by a hair’s breadth the wooden railing on the winding drive. The roads yawned open with cracks beneath our feet, the pine trees overhead shook and trembled as though under the influence of a mighty storm, and the pine cones showered an avalanche upon our heads.”

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