The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-01
1892. May 1s-Earthquake in Cornwall;
Aug IS. two shocks in Wales.
1888, May 2-Slight shock in Wales.
THE WORLD AT LARGE.

OF the 227 other earthquakes e, in
countries other than those heretofore
noted-only the most important will be
given mention here. The complete list
could it be printed, would show that Aus
tralia, the only great land division that has
| no volcanoes, also is the only part OF the
earth that has no record of earthquakes.
Even the great eruption of Krakatoa, In
| 1883 did not shake the foundations OF the
| Australian continent. and down 10 1895 the
| books are silent concerning any earth ire
mors there Mention already has been
made of the Egyptian earthquake of 4lSS r.
| c. 1t is twenty-four centuries before the
next is recorded, though that does not nee
essarily mean that there were none. A
partial list follows:
1854 B. C.-Deluge of Ogyges (tidal wave)
lays much of Greece waste for 200 years;
repetition in the deluge of Deucalion.
! 1903 B. c.
466 B. C-Earthquake at Sparta, Greece,
destroys 10000 lives.
425 B. Earthquake separates the pen
insula of Euboea from the Grecian main
land thus making an island.
s7s B. C.-Earthquake swallows up Helice
and Bura, in the Peloponnesus.
S45 B. Earthquake buries Dupras.
| Greece. with all its inhabitants; twelve
cities in the Campania, Italy, also buried;
entire Mediterranean basin suffers.
2S3 B. C.-Earthquake destroys Lysi-
machia, in what is now European Turkey.
224 B. C.-Colossus of Rhodes, one of the
seven wonders of the world. thrown down
by an earthquake.
1865 B. C.-Four cities in Asia Minor,
| two in Greece and two in Galatia destroyed
by earthquake.
II A. D.-Ephesus and eleven other cities
of Asia Minor ruined. One hundred and
forty years later $50 towns in the same dis
trict were destroyed, with immense loss of
life.
70. Aug. 2EDestruction of Herculaneum,
Pompeii and neighboring country by erup-
ton of Vesuvius; upward Of 100000 lives
destroyed. This disaster had been pre-
coded, in 63, by a partial eruption and
earthquake, which damaged both cities
with a considerable loss of life.
742-More than 500 towns in Syria, Pales-
tine and Asia Minor destroyed with loss
of life SURPRISING all calculation.
s1s-Earthquakes. followed by famine and
pestilence, throughout the Levant. Con-
stantinople overturned and all Greece
| shaken in 936. Entire Eastern empire
shaken in 1896 Thousands of lives lost in
each of these disasters.
| 11S7-Earthquake in Catania, Sicily, de-
stroys 1900 lives. Other thousands lost in
116S.
1855, september-A city of Calabria sinks
suddenly into the Adriatic. with all its
people.
126S-sixty thousand people engulfed in
Cilicia.
1SOO-Thousands of lives lost in Egypt;
Cairo half destroyed; Alexandria and other
cities badly damaged.
1362-Many lives and much property de-
stroyed by volcanic eruption in Iceland.
Repeated in 1889 and 1888 and on March e,
1875.
1856. Dec. 5-Naples and nearby villages
ruined; 10000 lives lost
1881. Feb. 26-Earthquake destroys 1,5OC
houses and 10000 lives in Lisbon; several
neighboring towns engulfed.
1541-Guatemala Antigua, the old capital,
destroyed by hot water from neighboring
volcanoes; 10000 lives lost. Oct. Is, earth
quake and storm together destroy the
Spanish fleet in the port of Algiers.
1570-Many buildings and 1000 lives de-
stroyed at Conception, Chile
earthquake at Lima, Peru.
1926, July S0-Naples ruined and thirty
nearby towns destroyed; 10000 lives lost.
Calabria again devastated in 1888.
1851, Dec. 17-vesuvius destroys Tore de-
Greco and 1900 lives.
1861, April 6-Ragusa, Austrian Italy,
ruined; 5000 persons perish Rimini de-
stroyed on April A. 1872; 1,5OO killed.
10 I0aIr f1c
was destroyed. Chinese chroniclers say
100 COO persons persisted.
1892. June 7-Second destruction of Port
Royal, nine-tenths of the city sinking into
the sea- The CONFUSION killed 1900 persons
and 5000 whites died from the succeeding
pestilence.
1893, Observation-Disclosures in Sicily
Catania engulfed with it's 1900 inhabitants
in all 100000 perish. Aquila. Italy. ruined
in 1903 and Abruzzi in 17O6, 1900 lives being
lost at each place.
THE EARTHQUAKE CENTURY.
The eighteenth century might properly
be called 1.-The earthquake century" fol-
the statistical record of not more than one
fourth of the earthquakes that have beer
deemed worthy of record during that period
show that 6S9, 44O persons persisted from tina
cause In addition there are others o.
which il is only said that thousands OF
''multitudes" were killed. The decade 1850
SO, which included the great Lisbon earth
quake contributed at least 10000 to thi.
total. The principal catastrophes are here
recorded:
17GS-Yeddo Japan, destroyed; 100000 per
ish.
JIG. Feb. SAIL Peru shaken; many town.
damaged and lives destroyed. May anC
June, shocks in Algeria destroy man!
towns and 10000 lives.
1726, Sept. 1000 lives destroyed at Pa
lermo Sicily. Nov. o. 1882 1910 lives de
stroyed az Naples.
1871, Nov. 13-Earthquake overwhelmi
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