Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-11-06
THERECEN1 LARrHQUAKE
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rom the N. Y. Herald, Oct. 49,
The ea,tt qntkrs OF San Francisco on
W, dursday last, some Twelve or thiite' n Ia
nu phrr, ,xl,uded. It opJrarS, pretty much
,lpbg thr Ahoie e ,Asl tine ut G ,liiOrnil, AID
pack o. the loot-uil, o. the Sierra Nevada,
q. : ow, tUou ,tains, which are pa ut the
grea. vtcarc ,h,u uf the A urrlcau con
tIuenr E.uhquiks, come tr"m Soue vol
.hntc di>uruanv' :, auh We dare SiS that
ali these yo'caun pei luna'irn- m hntn hem
spheres since Ma, last may he traced g.
NJ :, aud eruption o that m uth % TIE ter
unl Mtura Loa. OF tie Saud Nich l>aud-,
he NJ of all the ,slth's volcano. Tnat
erupuOr, We conjecture, ctus such o COM
~ ion oi the lirr5 hdIds Iuclos,d witLin the
thin shell OF COR ElHu- that hey have b. en-
from time to tine, hr,snIug out az various
tlu places ever s,nce.
II isa remarkable fact, while fIom the
18Th 70 the l5,h of August last, tho,e fear
Va esrtl Qu,kes CAME upou EucadOr and
P"rn, INV lv.ug IN rum numeruu, towns aud
cities sl0 g the coast Ton hundreds OF mites,
Nlt n tn 1872, "f August The same phe
nOmena were feit aud seen at I,k hama,
1u j par, ard along the 'uthern aud east
en- c'asi OF Aueitnlla, and hat on the 10th
i pretty svvrIe earthquake he, k down a
number Of buildings al t. surw, IN lndia.-
These alm.S simultaneous disturbances
doubtless the 1, suit ui the pressure o.
thr iur"Tral l,quid fire lrum ne side, rig I
thr, ugh The heart of the eaitU, against the
u,b,r -ide of the snell, These shakes VIII ch
they have had in Calf rnla came from the
agi alton impart,d 10 the lava Nh,ch uud =
lies the coWparaliv, ly thin crust of the
y,s IN srct'uu OF our continent. EISt at
the Nj ,si-silpi river We Iepose upon thick,
solid, aud reliable crus'.
We have no volcanoes in this section, be-
cause W. havr no use Tor These safety valves
and escape pipes. We are ali right. Bu
Va 1871, It viii be remembered Ivy some,
there was an earthquake at Nrw Maird,
on the west side Of The Mississippi, ON
which some rorests went dO9u and me
liue lakes were created. + om tue west
,de OF the Mississippi, therefore, We may as
sum the crust of tie earth, {" he Pac'tir,
especially in the valleys, 10 comparatively
tin, nIid the Two sections utin r~i>e are as
widely different rs Europe and Asia. Toe
continent east fom the Mississippi Is like
Europe, ana ives IKE Asa.
Bu We have spoken Of the Rrra' ypican
ic chain uf Amc,ica. Tpsc ain OF a. ouu-
,aiis aud subteranran l,e tx nd, from
Cape Horn aud Terra del Fu g., or TIE
land Of fire, up TO Mount 81. L AS, Alaska.
lhr.ugh South America il is the backbone
OF the continent through. Central Amrri-
ca and MrXicn II Is sca tered about bu,
abounds 10 volcanoes and earthqu tkes.
Al the southern boundary of the United
States two great chains branch of 70 the
uurlhwnrd, the Rocky Noun aims and the
Sierra Nevada. The Rocky VI uutaiu chain
Is the backbone proper of Mouth dmerica,
hut it is no longer volcanic. II WAS IN age
2 ne hy, but It's craters have become extinct,
and ate iAkes. West at tins backbone chain,
uu tho way TO the Great Salt Lake, We have
FIemDns Great BI.iu, au isolated region
ct somr live hundred miles wide, aud seven
hundred miles long, the wafer courses Of
which are lost iu the sands Of the desert, or,
expanding into lakes, are evaporated hy
the sun. This gr,ai Basin, r. m water marks
on the mountains o. the rim, was a, one
lime an arm Of the ocean, or an inland sea
like the Captain, hut WIS AZ later period
lifted mp hy the fiery forces inside the earth
AID made dry laud. All this vast and in.
hSpitahle region, with the region north
wa'd to O een, was apily described by
Fremont as a volcanic region hardly yet
cu, led down "a land Of fracture and vio-
ience aun fire." The numerous hot springs
"a the mountains and valleys, snd the vol
canic chemicals Of the ashy 20 OF the
Plains, support Fremont in tAis d'serIp.
ION,
Ga the west side Of this Great Basin We
have the Sierra Nevada or the continu ton
ri the living volcanic chain from South
America. 10 runs along par llel with the
P,cidc coast, hundred miles OFF NOR" or
less, all the way 10 Mount ST. Euas, in A.
sSka. This chain he. numerous peaks, u.s.
Ing from 1000 10 II 900 feet ahnve the sea,
and two Il them Monnt Hood, In Oregon,
Hnd Mouui ~ Helen, further north we're
g, ported t. he smoking lash nntumn nom
volcanic comhpsuon. A. an events, n'd =
Mi, m. I'M ain chain, n Us whole le' 70,
the volcanic forces ~ the e,rth are rompr-
anNrly urnr the suffice; ani 50, for ceuiu
rirs t. COME, perhaps, an the ron1irles IN
10Th sides will he liahle 10 hqN-krs.-
Hereafter, hgs and siT-stnry hu' -dngs wll
be rather risky business In san F'au'i'co,
at lrost for year or two, though snch a
shaking as they had on Wednesday LAST may