CASUALTIES OF PAST EARTHQUAKES
The Philadelphia Prena famishes the following table of the casualties of past earthquakes m varioaa parts of the world, apropos of the recent oonvulßlons at Charleston and other parts of the United States:— 742— Syria, Palestine, and Asia ; 500 lownß deatrcyed. 1137— Sicily ; 15,000 persons buried. 1158— In Syiia ; 20,000 perished. 1268— 1n Oicilia ; 50,000 perishtd. 1445, December 5 -At Naples, 40,030 perished. 16(9, September 14— Constantinople ; thousands perished. .
1531, February 26— At Lisbon; 1500 houses and 30,000 persons buried.
1626, July 30— Naples ; 30 towns and 70,000 lives lost.
1667— Sohmerkl ; laßted three months ; 80,000 perULed! 1672, April 14— Al Mini; above 15C0 perished, 1687, Ajrll 6— Bagusa ruined; 5000 perished. 1692, June 7— lsland of Jamaica ; whole of Port Royal engulfed 40 fathoms deep, and 3000 perished. ' 1603, September— Fifty-four cities and towns and more than 100,000 lives were lost.
1703, Fobroaiy 2— Aquila; 5000 perished. - '
1703— Jeddo, Japan, ruined ; 200,000 perished. 1706, Novembor 3- la the Abruzzlj 15,000 perished. 1716, Mt»y and June— At Algiers ; 20,000 perished. 1726, September I— Palermo j 6,000 lives loat.
1731, November 30 -China ; 100,000 people swallowed up at Pekin. 1732, November 29— Naples j J640 perished.
1746, Ootober 28— Lima and' Callao ; 18,000 persona buried. 1754— Grand Cairo ; half the houses and 40,000 persons swallowed upi 1755. June 7— Karschan, North Perala, destroyed ; 40,000 perished. 1755, November I— The great earth* quake at Lisbon . la about eight minutes moßt of the houses and upwards of 50,000 inhabitants were swallowed up. 1759, October 30 -Syria; 20,000 perished. 1780— Tauria ; 15,000 houses and multitudes burled.
1794, February 4— Panama destroyed, and 40,000 people burled la oneiecond.
1805, July 26— FroBolone, Naples; 6000 lives. ' 1812, March 16— At Caracas; 12,000 perished. 1819, June 16— Kutoh. Bunk ; 2000 persons buried. 1822— Aleppo destroyed ; about 20,000 peri«hed. 1840, February 14— Ternate; thousands lost. 1842, May 7—Oape Haytlen, Santo Domingo; between 4000 and 6000 lives. 1851, August 14— South Italy ; 14,000 iiven lost. 1856, Maroh 2 -Island of Great Sanget; 3000 lives loßt. 1859, March 22— Quito ; 5000 persons killed. 1861, March 20— Mendoza, South America ; 7000 lives lost. 1863, July 2 and 3 -Manila, Phlllippine Isleß ; 10,0C0 porsonß perished. 1868, August 13 and 15— Peru and Ecuador ; 25,000 lires loßt, and 30,000 rendered homeless ; loss of property estimated at 300,C00,000d01.
1875, May 16 to 18 -San Jose Cueta, Columbia ; 14. C00 lives. 1881, March 16 - Isohia : 289 houses, 114 lives lost, about £33,000 ; 24th Maroh, more destroyed by another shock.. 1881, April 3-Soio ; 4000 perished. 1883, July 23— Wand of luchia, In the Bay of Naples, destroyed ; 1990 lives.
1883, August 26 -Java Island was shattered and Bunk, and 16 others raised their heads above the surrounding waters. Nearly 100.000 were buried beneath voloanio debria or swept off the face of the land by the volcanic wave. 1884 and 1885— Andalusia ; 745 persons killed, 1485 injured, and 17,000 buildings damaged.
1885— Serinagur and numerous villages almost destroyed,
1886, August 28— Morea and the Island of Zante ; several villages and 300 lives.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1567, 25 May 1887, Page 3
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