Earthquakes of any notable magnitude are quite rare in Great Britain, so it’s unlikely that Edward Pearson would have been taken seriously by anyone. Pearson was traveling by train from Iverness to Perth in Scotland, the first leg of his trip to London.
He was going there, he told authorities, to warn the Prime Minister of a devastating earthquake that he knew was going to strike Glasgow.
But Pearson never got any further than Perth, as he was arrested on the train for not having a ticket. Although a local newspaper reported the story of this “unemployed Welsh prophet,” who would have really listened to him? Three weeks later, the earthquake struck, damaging buildings in Glasgow and other regions of Scotland.
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