“Of earthquakes”
Date
2-12-1812
Newspaper
the Georgia Journal
Page and Column
Page 2, Column 3
Newspaper Location
Milledgeville, Georgia
Serial Number
593
Abstract
Long article on earthquake history prior to New Madrid, Has list of earthquakes that were felt in both Europe and America. Notes that the source of the earthquakes that were being felt was in the southwest. Source was the Evening Ledger.
Transcript
OF EARTHQUAKES. Mr. EVANS.-The world, according to Galvisius, computing from its creation, is now 5761 years old : According to Usserius, 5816 years old. Computing from the birth of Christ, 1812 years have nearly elapsed. Georgia was colonized about 79 yeas ago. The oldest inhabitant, now in Savannah, knows nothing of Earthquakes in Georgia prior to that of last month. It is probable, therefore, that those convulsive throes of nature do not occur very frequently in the same country. The following is a succinct account of some of those earthquakes which have occurred in Europe and America:-- 1. 1692, Port Royal, in the Island of Jamaica, 2. 1746, Lima, in Peru, South America. 3. 1755, Lisbon, in Portugal, Europe. 4. 1773, 7th June, Guatimila, Spanish North America-Lat. 1340; when 8000 families instantly perished, or 40,000 souls. The city has been rebuilt on a spot at some distance from the former, and lies on the Pacific ocean. From the best information I can procure, the course of the shocks felt here the 16th December last and 23d January, was from nearly s. w. to n. w.: and the cause is, perhaps, to be ascribed to some convulsion in the mountains of Santa Fe, Spanish America, which abound with volcanoes and which run back of the Alleghany, and almost on the shores of the Pacific ocean, upwards of 1800 miles from us, due west; and extend from 30 to 70 N. lat. It is likely a third and more severe shock will be felt, when the volcano emits its last discharge of lava. These things, sir, present an awful lesson of man's dependence on his maker-would that the salutary admonition were attended to. Z. (Evening Ledger.)
Recommended Citation
"“Of earthquakes”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 581.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/581
