The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-17

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transmit the history TO succeeding
generations.
Records OF $3.50 earthquakes,
which have been more or less de-
struclive. have been collected by
Mallet. These occurred within 8. 456
years prior to 1850; but of the total
number OF which mention il made,
8. 240, or nearly half. occurred in the
fifty years since 1870. the average CT
the last four years OF his record Civ
ing two earthquakes per week. Ac.
cording. however, to a catalogue by
Alexis Perry, from 1643 to 1872, in
elusive, there were 1929 earth
quakes, or 575 each year. There is,
according to scientific authorities, 8
close relationship between earth
quakes and volcanoes, aad innumer-
able instances are given where, im--
mediately after a volcano ceases
Ierupting, earthquakes follow. Thus,
when the wreath OF smoke disappears
from Cotopaxi, Ecuador, the inhsb-
ItAnts of Quito anticipate earth
auakes. For the first time in the
memory of man the volcano ofStrom-
boil ceased erupting during the great
Oalabrisn earthquake. In 1897 8
great earthquake destroyed Rio
banda, by which 10000 souls per.
lshed; and this took place immedi-
Ately after the activity of a neighbor-
ing volcano had stopped. On the
18th of August, 1868, an earthquake
deselaIed the whole coast OF Peru. 10
the great Calabrian earthquake, in
1888. perhaps 100000 Italians and
SiciliAns were killed. It was felt
nearly all over Europe, while another
shock, which occurred on the 9th OF
October. 1870. swallowed up several
villages and their inhabitants. In
the year A. D. SO, or about sixteen
years before Herculaneum and Pom
peii we're buried beneath the ashes
and lava from Vesuvius, they were
partially destroyed by an earthquake.
rne city of Lisbon, on the morning
of November lat, 1855, va. the scene
of one OF the moot memorable earth
quakes recorded in history. The
great shock that followed the rumb
ling sound generally preceding an
earthquake, threw down the princi-
pal portion OF the city. The sea re-
tired, leaving the bar dry, and re-
turned the next moment IS a great
wave or breaker fifty feet in height,
flooding the city. Il lie believed
that fully 10000 persons persisted
inside of six minutes. The earth
quake that devastated Judea, ct the
time of the battle of Actium, 81 B. o..
caused the death OF 10, 600 persons.
The ancient city OF Antioch has been
the scene of numero earthquakes
Il WAS almost destroyed in lis A D.;
it was again visited by an earthquake
in 459; while 10 526 occurred the
most disastrous one ever recorded,
when the city was destroyed and it is
estimated that $4,000 persons
perished: sixty years later 1000
we're killed. Port Royal. the capital
OF Jamaica, On June z, 1892. was
sunk beneath the sea in less than
three minutes from the time the
earthquake begun. So rapidly did
the assures in the earth open and |
close that the lower parts OF the bodies
OF persons we're buried, while the
upper portions remained above the
ground. March 19. 1873, 6aa Salvador
was utterly destroyed, though the loss
Of life did not exceed 500, owing to
the inhabitants having been warned.
The city OF Caracas, Venezuela, was
entirely destroyed by three earth
quake shocks, sll coming within fifty
seconds, on the Goth OF March 1912. |
Callao, Peru. wa destroyed in 1856,
the earthquake being accompanied by
a sea wave which must have been 90
feeti in height. The same city was again
destroyed in 1746. It does not follow
that an earthquake is destructive only
where 1t originates. Some OF the
most fatal and destructive recorded,
have originated in mid ocean, and
traVersed almost the entire circum-
terence OF the globe, causing terrible
seaWaVes which, while the earth
quake itself has caused but little |
injury, have frequently devastated |
thousands OF miles Of land, destroyed |
uuteid property, and been The cause OF |
the dekth OF hundreds of thousands |
Of persons. For instance the city OF |
Conception, Chill, about midnight on
toe 4ih of February, was for the
tonrth time destroyed by an earth
quake; there were felt over 800
shocks within two weeks. The &C
sea wave was nearly
thirty feet high sud probably
originated lear the island of Juan
Fernando, where there alec broke
orth simultaneously a submarine
which sent up q column of