Show earthquake statistics THE millennial star has collected f from rom milnes work on earthquakes and other earth movements a batch of statistics relative to the number and effects of earthquakes which have occurred in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries As the information conveyed is of considerable interest we reproduce it those who desire to make the catalogue complete for the present century can do so providing they shall live eleven years longer by cutting out the following pasting it in a scra scrapbook scrap p book and zing adding the record of terrestrial disturbances tur bances as they occur up to the opening of the year 1900 jath century tenbury C in scandinavia and ire laud land ill in the britson isles and northern wes lules 68 63 in the spanish peninsula 98 8 5 in france belgium holland av in the rhine basin 71 81 in switzerland and rhine basin in the danube basin 88 in italy sicily sardinia malts malta 8 supplemental in last countries 20 go 88 in turco hellenic territory syria agean isles and the tavant levant in the united states and canada 88 51 in mexico and central america 24 80 in the antilles 86 85 in cuba 2 60 50 in chila alad la IA plato basin 10 in the northern zone of asia 82 67 57 in japan 81 27 totals 1668 1658 2120 excess during daring the present uncompleted centary cent nry A for purposes of comparison the follow following fiig statistics also are taken from haydn hayans Is dictionary see under earthquakes the time included in this report embraces about years divided into two periods of 60 years each the first beginning with 1770 and closing with 1830 the other continuing from 1830 up to date june 30 1889 only themore the more notable shocks are recorded santiago with its inhabitants swallowed up 1773 1778 destructive shock at smyrna 1778 at cauris houses destroyed thousands buried 1780 messina and other towns in italy and sicily overthrown thousands polished shed 1783 destroyed buried 1784 at st lucia people killed I 1 1788 at borgo di san 1000 destroyed 1789 all the country between santa fe and panama also cuzco and quito shaken people buried in one second 1797 carmana Cur mana south america ruined 1 1797 royal palace at constantinople destroyed 1800 the country from cronstedt Cron stadt to constantinople shaken 1802 A violent shock in holland 1804 at Froso frosolone lofie naples people killed 1805 st nicholas azores sunk 1810 awful shock at caracas perished 1812 several shocks in india 2000 buried 1819 genoa palermo rome kome and other cities greatly damaged thousands perished 1819 aleppo destroyed killed 1822 at Mur claSp enand other towns lost 1829 at canton and neighborhood killed 1880 1830 this closes the first sixty years period forty shocks at Bogo tara 1834 concepcion chill chili destroyed 1835 1885 at cosenza and other towns in calabria 1000 killed 1835 at castiglone Calabria killed 1835 nearly half of port royal destroyed lost whole island damaged 1839 at bernato thousands killed whole island made a waste 1840 awful shock at ararat houses destroyed several hundreds of lives lost 1840 great shock at zanti many perished 1840 at cape haytian Hay tien st domingo or lost 1842 guadaloupe entirely destroyed 1843 at rhodes and macro killed 1851 at val valparaiso ralso houses destroyed st mai 1851 at delft italy perished 1851 manilla lla philipine Phill pine islands injured 1852 thebes greece nearly destroyed 1853 st salvador south america destroyed st 1854 25 abasca japan and phon destroyed jeddo also nau injured 1854 w brousha Br turkey nearly d st royed 1855 1 I several villages in central E eur um destroyed 1855 1855 jeddo jedde japan nearly destroy 40 on the island of great sana san get about killed 1856 B at candia rhodes etc hundreds hunan l perished 1856 4 in calabria at several tow novt killed 1856 W corinth nearly destroyed 1868 1858 at quito I 1 immense ammense damage dw da perished 1859 at Erze roum thousands c troyed 1859 at san salvador many build 1 destroyed 1859 at mendoza fia beriah 1861 at guatemala 14 churches x i many other buildings destroy 1862 at rhodes 13 villages destroy 1863 at manilla 1 killed at sicily houses destroy 1865 77 at mitylene Ml tylene 1000 peo people ale k bifi 1867 destroyed lives ka I 1 z 1857 arequipa iquique aquique and mi other towns destroyed ji lost 1868 AP 1869 at santa marina town destroy avo ze in calabria several villa eee t troyed roy 1870 7 W in california several towns townsa troyed 1872 gebru destroyed people km 1872 the statistics which follow are bained from other sources san salvador destroyed destroy ed 1878 destructive shock at aquique iquique Z killed at cuba venezuela killia fell 1878 shocks felt in half the w world 0 ful in south amerl america ca 1 1878 8 7 78 great damage at san L luis ul pot S A 1878 great damage at manilla on different occasions 1878 great shock at agram jo 1880 Cassa ruined 1881 forty five villages destroyed destroy chlo in many localities the poo tion disappeared 1881 awful shock at costa RI rica cassam Cassa eatola sunk groat great d age in other towns 8 aw 11 1883 at 11 lives v es 3 1883 1888 awful destruction in java vicinity people deris 1883 1 in asia minor 1000 1000 killed 20 rendered homeless 1883 widespread shocks in 8 I 1 deeds of lives lost 1884 northern part of new zealand waste 1886 1 awful shocks in the r bd charleston damaged 1886 14 i in italy and france killed 1887 a terrible shock at you i perished and elsewhere in aa large tract of land was swallowed bp destroyed 1888 heavy shocks in honduras 1888 in islands lives loot hundreds of houses destroyed 1888 terrible earthquake at costa rica bica great loss of life 1888 at and kastakos rus eus g etaka many lives were lost 1889 |