HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES.
Since the beginning of the eighteenth century the most destructive earthquakes have been tbe following: — Year. PJace. Lives lost. 1703 Yeddo ... 190,000 1716 Algiers 18,000 1726 Palermo • 6.000 1731 - .Peking 95,000 1746 Xiima 18.000 175* Cairo 40,000 1755 Lisbon ... 35.000 1773 Guatemala 33,000, 1797 Quito 41,000 1822 Aleppo 22,000 I£6l Mendoza, S. America. ... 12,000 1563 Africa 6.000 ; 1880 Manila 3.000 i 1883 Ischia ... .'. 2,000
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Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 33
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66HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES. Otago Witness, Issue 2719, 25 April 1906, Page 33
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