People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — MANY EARHTQUAKES. [ARTICLE]

MANY EARHTQUAKES.

Sixty-Five Disturbances Have Occurred in Mexico in Six Months. City of Mexico, Jan. 9.—The central ■ metorologieal observatory here has made its report of earthquake disturbances in Mexico during the past half year. During the last six months of . 1893 there were sixty-five distinct disturbances. The most general was the one of October 30, caused by the great eruptions of the Colima volcano on the Pacific coast, and the oscillation j was observed over a great extent of • territory. In the district of Coyuca de Catalane the disturbance was unusually severe, wrecking buildings and doing J damage to the amount of $200,000. The • earthquakes of Mexico for the most t part are of a mild order, the whole half year only showing one of any serious i consequence.