[…] the cries of the natives, the moanings and gurglings of camels, the trumpetings of elephants, the buglings of neighbouring regiments […]

If the doomtards and raving idiots are correct and major earthquakes occur whenever Comet Elenin lines up with the Sun, Earth, and another planet -

well-holes of the stairs and chimney

𝜅ₙ(𝜃)=𝜅₁ cos ²𝜃+𝜅₂ sin ²𝜃