The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-14
THE JAVA OUTBURST.

We have said that the Java OutburSt j.
the most stupendouS on record. An Island
has been shattered and sunk. and sixteen
Others have raised their heads above the
surrounding waters. Some hundred thou
nd people have been sacrificed to their
mother anger--huricd beneath volcanic
d6oris or swept oil the face Of the land by
the volcanic wave. The floor Of the ocean
over a wide area 10 the southeast of SUI
maria has been raised into a plata above
The waters, and the effects Of the general
upheaval have been felt Is far a. the Amerl-
can coast OF the Pacific.
There can be little doubt that the wave
which was felt along the west coast of
North America was propagatcd across the
P?ciiic from the Java outbreak. All I'M
dcrneath the island. we know, must be the
seat Of the most energetic volcanic actN-
ity. and there can be little doubt that the
ocean floor must have been subject To q
sudden uphcava over many miles, giving
| ne TO an oceanic disturbance that has
spread across the Pacific, and was doubt
less felt all around Australia and New Ic:l-
| land. As we have already pointed ont, the
last great manifestation Of this kind, on May
| 10, 1877, bad IFS origin on the Peruvian
4.
| the Sandwich Islands on one side and to
| New Zca'and and Australia on the other.
Still more dreadful and widespread were
the result. of the earth throe in the neigh
borhood OF the Pacific coast on AUGUST
! Is and II. 1868. ON that occasion, twenty
minutes after an earthquake shock was felt
! n Africa. Peru, an enormous wave, fifty
feet high, swept in over the shore. This
| lac
coast ~ far rs NaldNia. which it reached
in five hours. NorlhNard it trayelled also,
and some hours laf IT reached san Pedro,
in Lower California. ~ wave sixty
three feet in height. Before that seven
hours. indeed. after it was felt at Africa,
the wave touched the Sandwich Islands.
and rose and fell in such Il manner
all around the islands that il seemed as if
they themselves were actually in motion.
About the same time the Marqucsas Islands
felt the force of the shock, and later still
Yokohama, I'm Japan, was reached by the
roll Of waters. II took thc wave ten hours
to make New Ze land. and at intervals for
hours the shores OF the colony were
charged by successive sweeps, while il was
nearly fourteen hours before it was first de-
tected on the Australian coast. Not less POI
u
tiers around Java; and wLen full details
reach lis il will he found that its influences
have been not less widespread. Volcanic
d(briS have been found all over the bed of
the ocean; and although some Of il doubt
less has been contributed by the volcanoes
Of the land, much of II NAV come from
volcanic outlets deep down below the
waters. TIE earth. Mr.. George Darwin
| I'D ~ "a. rsf : T., (. .,,t
state of tremor- and absolute Steadiness is
unaita'uable. Thee can be little doubt
also that there are volcanic Outbui SIS
and earthquake upheayals which are
either never known TO us at all
or only by their remote results i'm
such form rs eaI .hquakc waves propa-
gated over the occ-u. Professor Milne, Of
Japan, we believe, goes even further than
Mr.. George DE- win. aud maintains that in
TIE west Pacific. at least, the earth below
The surface is hOrcycOmbed with cavities
and that carthqu .kes are Of almost momen.
tary occurrence. 4 delicate SeismOmeteT
Is agitated when To human sen alton not
The smallest sign Of earthquake is evident
, All these are signs that, old As our earth
Is, she is still full of vigor, though 100000
lVes are terrible price Ia pay for the AS
strance that she is still alive. IL is some
400 years since any equally powerful evil
dence OF the forces OF nature was afforded
IN Europe, when, in the fifteenth century,
what Is now known as Monte Nuoyo Wa
thrown up in nights time TO a height OF
over 400 feet.
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