SOME PREVIOUS BIG SHOCKS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 766, 31 December 1908, Page 3

SOME PREVIOUS BIG SHOCKS.

742.— 1n Syria, Palestine, and Asia; more than 500 towns were destroyed, and the loss of life surpassed calculation. 1137.— Catania (Sicily) overturned, and 15,000 people buried in. the ruins. 1158.— 1n Syria; 20,000 perished. 1268.— 1n Cicilia; 00,000 perished. 1456.— At Naples; 40,000 perished. 1531.— At Lisbon; 30,000 people and 1500 houses buried in ruins; several neighbouring towns were engulphed. " . 1596.— Japan; thousands perished, and several cities made ruins. 1626.— At Naples; 70,000 lives Jost, 30 towns and villages destroyed. 1667.— At Schamaki; 80,000 perished. The shocks lasted for three months. 1693.— Sicily ; titty-four cities and towns and 300 villages overturned. Catania and its 18,000 inhabitants disappeared without leaving a trace. More than one buudred thousand lives losts. 1703.— Jeddo (Japan) ruined; 200,000 -perished. 1716.— Algiers; 20,000 perished. 1731.— Pekin; 100,000 people swallowed up. 1746. — Lima and Callao demolished; 18,000 perished in the ruins. 1754.— At Grand Cairo; 40,000 persons swallowed up. 1773. — Guatemala; Santiago, with its inhabitants, swallowed up. 1780.^Tauria; 15,000 houses wrecked, and multitudes of people killed. "J(7W.— The whole country between Sante Fe and Panama destroyed, including Cuzco and Quito; forty thousand people swallowed up in one second. 1856.— 1n Calabria; Montemurro and other towns destroyed, and about 10,000 lives lost. 1859.— Juito; about 5000 killed. IB6o.— Mendoza, in South America; about 7000 lives lost. 1863.— Manila, Philippine Islands; about 1000 perished. 1867.— The cities of Arequipa, Sacna, lquique, and Chenoha, and many small towns in Peru and Ecuador destroyed; 25,000 lives lost. 1875.— San Jose de Cucuta. and other towns near Santander, on the boundary of Colombia, destroyed; about 14,000 lives said to be lost. 1883. — Casamicciola and several villages in the Island of Ischia destroyed almost entirely; 1990 lives lost. 1884.— Several towns destroyed—Albania, Granada; many killed; Pertana, about 900 killed. 1885. — Severe shock at Srir -«t, Cashmere; 3081 deaths. 1887.— Nice and neighbourhood; 200-.'. deaths in Italian territory, and ab'<ut 12 in France. 188S.— Yunnan, China; about 4000 killea. 1891.— San Salvador, Central America; great destruction of life and property. 1891.— Very destructive earthquake .in Japan. ' v 1893.— Destructive shocks in Sorvia, Bulgaria, and Hungary; several villages destroyed. ' 1809.— At "Aium, Asia Minor; two -villages destroyed, and more than 1600 deaths. 1899.— Tiflis, Russia; six villages destroyed, about lOOQ^aths. 1906.— Destruction of S*n Francisco, Valparaiso, ; great loss of life. 1907. — Kingston, Jamaica ; about 1000 deaths. 4