It seemed as if the whole city was to be overturned from its foundations.

He rushed immediately into the streets, where the inhabitants were gathered together in consternation; and, whilst terror was depicted in every countenance, there was a general cry that the end of the world was come.

All contemporary historians mention this earthquake, and agree that it originated at the foot of the Alps.
It made sad ravages at Pisa, Bologna, Padua, and Venice, and still more in the Frioul and Bavaria.

If we may trust the narrators of this event, sixty villages in one canton were buried under two mountains that fell and filled up a valley five leagues in length.

A whole castle, it is added, was exploded out of the earth from its foundation, and its ruins scattered many miles from the spot.