“From the Nashville Clarion”

Date

2-28-1812

Newspaper

Frankfort American Republic

Page and Column

Page 2, Column 4

Newspaper Location

Frankfort, Kentucky

Serial Number

194

Abstract

Article from the Nashville Clarion noting historic earthquakes of the past prior to the New Madrid earthquakes.

Transcript

FROM THE NASHVILLE CLARION EARTHQUAKES One in Asia, which overturned 12 cities in the year 17, Herculuneum buried by one in the year 79; four cities in Asia, two in Greece, and three In Galatia, overturned in the year 107; Antioch destroyed by an Earthquake 115, one swallowed up Nicodemia and several other cities 120; one in Macedonia swallowed up 150 cities, 337, a terrible one with an inundation, when 50,000 persons were destroyed at Alexandria July [unreadable] 405, one which continued from September to November, and swallowed up several cities in Europe, 394; one which swallowed up several villages in the neighborhood of Cybary, 417; one which destroyed Annitoch, September 14, [unreadable]; one at Constantinople, which lasted 40 days and overturned several edfices 480, another at Antioch, which destroyed 4,800 inhabitants, 521; one which shook France, Germany, and Italy, and threw down St. Paul's at Rome, April 801; one through out all England which was afterwards, followed by a scarcity, 1090 one which swallowed up the city of Catania, and more than 1300 souls, 1137 in Hungary and England, 1179; one at Calabria in Sicily, when a city and its inhabitants were lost in the Adriatic sea, 1186; the greatest ever known in England, November 13, 1318; a dreadful one in Germany, 1316; a dreadful one at Lisbon, which continued eight days, overthrew 1,500 houses, and killed 30,000 persons, February, 1531; a whole province in China, in one moment was absorbed into the earth, and all the towns and inhabitants buried in an immense lake of water, 1550; one in Naples and Sicily, which swallowed up several towns and 30,000 persons, 1638, one in Chili, when several whole mountains sunk into the earth one after another, 1636; 100,000 people perished by an Earthquake in Sicily, January, 1693; Palermo in Sicily, nearly destroyed, and 600 persons lost their lives, Sept. 2, 1723; in New Jersey, November 1726, and 1732; again December 7, 1737, November 18, 1774, and October 30, 1763; a remarkable one at Massachusetts, and other places in New England, October 20 1727; the whole of the kingdom of Chili was swallowed up, and also St. Jago, 1730; four provinces in China swallowed up July 31, 1731; in Calabria in Sicily, when the territory of Nova Casa sunk 20 feet without destroying a building, April 19, 1783; in Ireland, which destroyed five churches and upwards of 100 houses. August, 1734; one in the beginning of the present century, which laid waste the whole country of Perue in a quarter of an hour, 300 leagues long and 20 wide; a terrible one in Lima, which entirely destroyed that city, and 5000 persons lost their lives; there were 74 churches, 14 monasteries, and 15 hospitals blown down, and the [unreadable] reckoned [unreadable]Earthquake continued from October 27 to November 20, 1746, and extended in Gallao, which was also destroyed; in London, February 6, and March 8, 1750, and to several other places in the south of England, April 2, [unreadable]; Grand Cairo had two thirds of the houses, and 40,000 inhabitants swallowed up, September 2, 1734; the city of Quito, in Peru. destroyed April 24, 1755; a terrible one November 1, 1755; which did considerable damage at Oporto in Portugal and Seville in Spain, but more particularly at Lisbon, where, in about eight minutes, most of the houses, and 50,000 inhabitants were destroyed; the cities of Coimbra and Bruga suffered, and St. Ubes was swallowed up; the calamities occasioned by this Earthquake were immense, as it extended no less than 5000 miles; at the Azore islands when one hundred thousand persons were buried in the ruins, and the island divided into two, July 9, 1757; at Bordeaux in France, August 11, 17 [unreadable]; Truxillo in Peru, was swallowed up by one in November, 1752 at Martinque, August, 1767; when 1000 persons' lost their lives; Gutimala in New Spain entirely swallowed up, and many thousand inhabitant perished, December 17, 1773; at Tanais, in Persia, when 15000 houses were thrown down, and great part of Calabria in the island of Sicily was destroyed, and 30000 people lost their lives, February 25, 1783; another in the same island did great damage, 1784; one in the north of England, August 11, 1786; in Mexico, and in other parts of New Spain, April [unreadable], 1787; in Scotland,, October, 1791; a slight shock perceived in Pennsylvania early in 1792.

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