PREVIOUS DISTURBANCES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8092, 24 April 1906, Page 2

PREVIOUS DISTURBANCES.

TO BE PUT OUT OF MISERY.

A CURIOUS COINOEDBNOE.

California has previonsly suffer*! from seisnuo disturbances, and in l«w>v. mgup the dates of th^sh^b. aXm M 8 t lB o,m< On 19th April, 1892, San Franeiaoo waa treated to a very severo disturbing. HIT. on 19th April. 1902. another sfiS ww reported, and now on 19th April, IW6, news reaehes us of atiU another and more disastrous disturbance. Southern California in particular i* highly seiamio, and forty or fifty ago San Franoiwo «», according™ one authority, •• Wltdmoi f or {„„ . bLk "f * h " 1901, Majof C ,U E W Dnbl®Sif H following information th« nineteenth century there have been tan earthquakes in Califwtotoifc.t /? oansing the fall of.ohimney* the partial r W n of houaw, and some - personal injury. Of these ten four were a degree worse, eausing the com. ' > plote ruin of many houses and the lost 4 o some lives. Of those four one wm J classed a 8 m the first rank, causing the i ruin of buildings, great loss of life, 1 cracks m the ground, and slips from 1 the mountain. This list waa the '-»] « We V y» ley or %o shock of 26th ; lswfs p rom ?? y®*' 18 ®° to 1 1888 San Francisco felt 854 shocks. i most of thom very slight. Besides these, there were in the State of Cali. fornia in the above years ali nty shocks not included ia those felt in the ?i t therefore, that, though not highly seismic, California has some claua to rank as one of the ' disturbed regions. But it cannot com. i, pare with Japan, which registers a " d tremo " at the rate of from iuuu to lo(K) a year