Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1877 — A Year’s Earthquakes. [ARTICLE]

A Year’s Earthquakes.

Manifestations of Internal force benealh the earth's crust in the shape of either earthquakes or volcanic eruption*, occur on an average nearly three limes a week, in greater or less intensity in some part of the- globe. Such, at least, la the conclusion to be arrived at from the compilation of all the recorded phenomena of this kind in the year 1875, lately prepared by Prof. Fuchs, and published in a German scientific journal. Out of the three hundred and sixty-five days of that year one hundred were marked by terrestrial disturbances of which authentic records exist, while there must have been many shocks of more cr less violence in unfrequented portions of the globe where volcanic forces are Known to exist. The most serious of these observed phenomena occurred at Cucuta, New Granada, on the 16th, 17th and 18th of May, when several towns and villages were destroyed; at San Cristobal and Guadalaxera, in Mexico, on February 11th; at Lifu Island, in the North Pacific, on March 28tli; at Lahore, in the Punjaub, and at Porto ltico, on the 12tli ami 21st of December. All these places, it will be observed, are in the torrid zone, with the exception of Lahore, which is only a short distance north of the Tropic of Cancer. It is estimated that no fewer than twenty thousand persons lost their lives during the destruction caused by these earthquakes, while the damage to property was enormous.— London Time*.