Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-05-05
THE SCIENCE OF SEISMOLOGY.


Zadkiel in his Voice of the Stars
for April did not make precise pre-
diction of the earthquake reported this
morning. for though Asia Minor is one
OF the regions exposed to meletic in
iluences through the near conjunction
of Saturn and Jupiter, the seer located
his earthquake at Cabul. Such catas-
trOphe was, however, confidently ex-
pected by better authorities than Zad-
kiel, Tao SEE. Those who have not
given the subject attention viii be sur
prised to learn how closely earthquakes
are observed nowadays, and how fire.
quently they occur. Prof. lockwood
noted 60 days between July Is, 1877,
and November %, 1878, on which one
or more shocks were felt on the Ameri-
can continent. Fuchs in 1873 recorded
the unusually large number of - vol
canic eruptions at places far apart and
mostly from little-knOwn volcanoes, and
lO3 earthquakes. though this enumera-
ton includes as units many complete
periods. One earthquake at Tanna
lasted four weeks; in Catania the ground
trembled almost continuously from Oc-
tOber to November 10.
The year 1879 was marked by great
number of earthquakes and volcanic
eruptious. many shocks being reported
almost at the same instant from places
widely separated. Thus on the Sth of
January severe shocks were felt in the
Caucasus, in the Tyrol and in Luxem-
burg; on the 9th, the most violent earth
quake since 1865 was experienced mt
Arequipa, Peru; on the 10th shocks
We're felt at Cologne and throughout
Southern Germany; on the Ilth, more
at Vienna: on the 18th. another violent
shaking at Arequipa. In the middle of
Nav eruptions began from Vesuvius;
-Etna sympathized on the 18th, pouring
out ashes and lava for fortnight:
simultaneously similar outburst
was noted at Geisfugie, Iceland. and
on the day that .Etna broke into activ-
ity violent eruption of the Czobancz
mountain in Hungary. long regarded as
extinct, was chronicled. As the erup-
ton of 4Etna was followed BY continu-
Gus earthquakes in Sicily until the end
of June. so the outbreak of the Go
bancz Mountain was accompanied by
severe commissions in Hungary. Bosnia
and Bessarabia, throwing down houses
and trees and opening assures from
which water poured in foods. and cul-
minating in the violent shocks at
Agram. June 21-22, while tremblincs
were observed at AK and Nassau, Nav
26-27, and at Hastings May 81. There
after Europe had u comparative rest
Till about the lst Of November. when ali
the south and east of Hungary. Servia.
RoumaIia and Bessarabia felt incessant
earthquakes of considerable intensity,
some shocks even lasting a minute. AT
the time of least activity of volcanic |
forces in Europe-July l1-three strong
shocks were felt in Cairo and near the |
Pyramids, something unknown in |
Egypt since 1857. In Persia, March %
April ?, there were twenty-one villages |
destroyed and fiftv-four greatly dam
aged; OF the l,200 inhabitants of Manan
and Tark but few escaped. Java was
visited by several disastrous shocks be-
tween March % and June ). its volca-
noes being also in active eruption.
China had its turn June 29-July IL,
with after-shocks of sufficient violence,
though not nearly SO destructive in |,