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great many chimneys and old walls and were taken to pieces”] (Note du Registre
paroissial de Villers-le-Temple); Huy ,“ Les briques de presque toutes les cheminees
furent projetees a terre, entraınant dans leur chute des ardoises et des tuiles. De
grosses pierres se detacherent de la tour principale de l'ancien chateau et l'une
d'elles tua une sentinelle
” [“the bricks of almost all the chimneys were thrown
to the ground, dragging slates and tiles down in their fall. Large stones came off the
main tower of the old castle and one of them killed a sentry”] (Noel, Note dans un
Registre de la Cour d'Ahin); Liege ,“ il n'y eust pas une maison dans cette ville qui
n'en eust ressenty du dommage; il y eust plusieurs personnes ecrasees et quantit´ede
blessees par les debris des cheminees et des toicts ” [“there was not a single house in
this town that did not suffer much damage; several people were crushed and many
were injured by the debris from the chimneys and roofs”] (Albert Joseph Gossuart,
Chronique); “ toute la ville de Liege fut forte ebranlee, il y eut plusieurs morts, et
beaucoups des degats sur tout par les cheminees renversees ” [“the whole city of
Liege was deeply shaken, there were several dead and considerable damage mostly
by toppled chimneys”] (Chronique des Celestines d'Avroy).
Many patrimonial buildings suffered also strongly and have been refreshed
during the years following the earthquake event: the churches of Andrimont,
Verviers, Oneux, Theux, Stavelot, Fleron, Montzen, Aachen, Emael, Boirs,
Glons and Liege (St-Lambert cathedral, St-Laurent abbey, etc.); abbey buildings
in Stavelot and Malmedy ; the castle of Franchimont . For these localities, we
evaluated intensity as being at least VII. For some of them we gave also the range
VII-VIII.
Curiously, there is little information concerning the behaviour of the houses in
the city of Verviers ,“ un gros tremblement de terre qui abattit plusieurs cheminees
de maisons
...
” [“A violent earthquake which sent down several chimneys”] (Henri
De Sonkeux, Chronique), where the panic of the population is at the origin of the
“miracle” of Our Lady of the Recollets church.
...
3 At Larger Distance
During the last years, our specific searches in different offices of records allowed
to improve the knowledge of the earthquake effects in several localities outside the
mainly affected area (Fig. 5).
In Mons (intensity VII), additional information confirms the importance of dam-
age to houses and that some dozen of people were killed or seriously injured: “ Eben
zu der Zeit und Stunde war auch das Erdbeben zu Bergen in Hennegau versp uhret
worden wodurch viel Hauser Kirchen und andere Gebaue beschadiget und halb ru-
iniret auch uber 80 Menschen theil getodtet theils beschadiget worden ” [“At exactly
the same time and hour, the earthquake was also felt in Mons in Hainaut where many
houses, churches and other buildings were damaged and half ruined and more than
80 people were either killed or injured”] (Ungl ucks-Chronica 1692); “
il ebranla
plusieurs batiments; il en ouvrit d'autres qu'il fallut demolir, et plusieurs cheminees
...
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