25th September 1935
Jersey is shaken by an earthquake
After several days of particularly rough seas, residents across Jersey reported minor earth tremors lasting around half an hour at lunchtime. Nobody could say for sure what had caused them or even if they were a bone fide earthquake. Some said they were actually reverberations from the firing of heavy artillery.
Uneven effects
The pier at Bonne Nuit Bay was cracked but, conversely, the observatory instruments at Maison Saint Louis recorded nothing at all. This was perhaps not surprising as the observatory is located above St Helier, while most reports came from the coast.
Although earthquakes are no more common in Jersey than on the mainland, the Birmingham Daily Gazette reported the following day that “in November 1930, Professor Charles Davidson, of Cambridge, said that the existence of an earthquake centre about 12 miles away to the east was the reason for Jersey’s seeming susceptibility to earth tremors.”
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Other events that occured in September
The mail packet ‘Express’ is wrecked
- The Express mail packet hit rocks close to La Corbiere on a journey from Weymouth to Jersey via Guernsey.
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Vickers Viscount aircraft crashes at Jersey Airport
- A Vickers Viscount aircraft with 74 passengers and crew crashed on landing at Jersey Airport when the front wheel retracted.
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Construction of Gorey Railway begins
- The honour of cutting the first sod in the construction of Jersey’s new Eastern Railway line went to one of the directors’ wives.
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St Helier Weybridge station closes
- Weybridge station stood in what is now Liberation Square. It opened in October 1870 and closed on 30 September 1936
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