The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-04
GREAT SEISMIC DISASTERS.
This Year Has Been Remarkable by Their
Number.

| Number.
The Baltimore Sun makes the following
summary OIL the great seismic disasters fol
which the present year has been remark
able:
April 10-News received of volcanic ac-
tivity at Unalaska, Aleutian Islands.
April 1S-Earthquakes in Guatemala and
Mexico, kI.l4ng LOCO persons, injuring 3,0Ot
others and rendering $4,000 homeless.
May 3-Mount Redoubt, in Alaska,
erupts.
May Eruption of st. Vincent.
| May S-Eruption of Mount Pelee, de-
stroying st. Pierre and $4,000 persons.
May 12-Mount Colima, near Guadalaja-
ra, Mexico, becomes active.
| May 13-Severe earthquake in St
Thomas, Danish West Indies.
May 15-Mount Soconusco, Mexico, be-
comes acllve, causes many casualties and
a few fatalities.
May 1s-Earthquakes in the southern
part of Portugal.
| May 1S-second eruption of st. Vincent.
| May 20-Tidal wave destroys a portion
of the village of LIE Carbet, Martinique.
| May 20-Basse Pointe, Martinique, mum
dated by mud.
| May 21-Earthquake at ST Augustine,
Fla.
May 2-Mount Pelee resumes and con-
| tinues with great force for several days.
May 2S-Earth tremor registered at Bay
onne, N. J., and at Chattanooga, Tenn.
May 30-Another eruption of La Sou
friere, accompanied by severe earthquake.
May 31-Sulphurous exhalations from
Mount Trabochetto, between Nice and
Genoa, Italy.
June Announcement of eruption Of
Mount Blackburn in southeastern Alaska.
June 4The Gusygran, mud volcano,
near the village of Kobe, in Caucasia,
erupts, killing many persons.
June Landslide, Mount Grigna, near
Lake Lecco, Switzerland, kills two noted
scientists.
June 6-Another violent eruption of
Mount Pelee.
June S-News received of the eruption
of Tacana in Guatemala, accompanied by
violent earthquakes, which RACED many
buildings in several towns. One thousand
persons killed.
June 9-Columns of steam rise from
Mount Rainier. in Alaska.
June 1HDiscovery of slight elevation of
localities in Pennsylvania.
June 14-Still another violent eruption of
Mount Pelee.
June 15-Strong earthquake shocks in
Sicily.
June 19-Mass of slime elected from Pc
Basse Pointe.
June 2O-Disastrous earthquake shocks
in Tyrol
June 21-volcano of Pichincha, in Ecua-
dor, becomes active.
June 22-Violent earthquake shock at
Cassano al ionic, Calabria, Italy.
June 24-News received at San Francisco
of the eruption of the volcano at Kilau-
ca, near the city of Hilo, Hawaii
July Earthquake shocks in Salonica,
European Turkey, causing heavy loss of
life and great damage to property. On
the same day, also, earthquake shocks
were felt simultaneously in twenty towns
in Asia Minor, causing the collapse OF
many houses.
ed from Tulsa, a small volcano in the
Indian Terrllory.
July T-Guvesne and Zelisova, in Euro
pean Turkey, partially destroyed by an
earthquake.
July S-Tldal wave at New Orleans
forces salt water up the Harvey canal,
killing millions of fish.
July S-Volcanoes of Miravallis and Ri
cond de la Vieja, in Costa Rica, reported
to be in active eruption.
July 9-Severe earthquake shock at Bun
der Abbas, Persia, doing much damage
July 10, II. 12-Loud decorations from
Soufriere volcano.
July 1l-Fresh eruption from Mount Pc
lee.
July 12-Violent earthquake shock in
Caracas, damaging the towns of Guare-
mas Guatire. Valencia and La Guayra.
July 17-Other severe earthquakes at
Kingstown, St. Vincent.
July 27-Destructive earthquake shocks
in California, ooing much damage to prop
erty in Los Alamos, San Maria and Santa
Barbara simultaneously series of severe
shocks was felt in Nebraska, the Dakotas
and western Iowa.
August Is to 15-Isand Of Torishima,
Japan, destroyed and $50 persons killed.
August 15-Mount Pelee begins another
eruption.
August 21-Serious earthquake shocks in
tho philippines.
AUGUST SO-Fresh eruption from La
Soufriere.
August 30-Two thousand killed by erup-
ton of Mount Pelee, which destroyed
Morne Rouge, Ajoupa Bouillon and other
towns.
| August 30-Strong earthquake shock felt
at Campano. in South America. accom-
panied by noise heard along the whole
Caribbean shore.
| September 2-Heavy earthquake shock
| in Algiers.
! September S-Earthquake at Pau,
France; news received of terrifying
shocks in India.
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