“Earthquakes”

Date

3-17-1812

Newspaper

Louisiana Gazette

Page and Column

Page 3, Column 1

Newspaper Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Serial Number

929

Abstract

Long article on earthquake history in antiquity and in Europe. From the Nashville Clarion.

Transcript

EARTHQUAKES. One in Asia, which overturned 12 cities in the year 17; Herculaneum buried by one in the year 79; four cities in Asia, two in Greece, and three in Galatis, 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, 357; a terrible one with an inundation, 50,000 persons were destroyed at Alexandria, July 1, 405; one which continued from September to November, and swallowed up several cities in Europe, 394; one which swallowed up several villages in the neighbourhood of Cybury 417; one which destroyed Antioch, September, 14, 451; one at Constantinople, which lasted 40 days, and overturned several edifices, 480; another at Antioch, which destroyed 4,800 inhabitants 521; one which shook France, Germany, & Italy, and threw down St. Paul's [unreadable] April 801; one throughout all England, which was afterwards followed by a scarcity, 1090; one which swallowed up the city of Catania, and more than 1500 souls, 1137! In Hungary and England, 1179; one at Calabria, in Sicily, when a city and its inhabitants were lost on the Adriatic sea, 1186; the greatest ever known in England, Nov. 13, 13?8; a dreadful one in Germany, 1346; a dreadful one at Lisbon, which continued eight days, overthrew 1500 houses, and killed [unreadable] persons, Feb. 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, 1356; one in Naples and Sicily, which swallowed up several towns and 30,000 persons, 1638; one in [unreadable] when several whole mountains sunk into the earth one after another, [unreadable] people perished by an earthquake in Sicily, Jan. 1693; [unreadable] Sicily, nearly destroyed, and 600 persons lost their lives, Sept. 3, 1726; in New-Jersey, November 1726, and 1732, again December 7, 1737, November 18 1774, and October 30, 1763; a remarkable one at Massachusetts, and [unreadable] in New-England, October 29 1727; the whole of the kingdom of China was swallowed up, and also St. Jago 1730; four provinces in China swallowed up, July 31, 1731; in Calaria, in Sicily, when the territory of Nova Casa sunk 2 feet without destroying a building, April 19, 1783; in Ireland, which destroyed [unreadable] churches and upwards of 100 houses-August, 1731; one in the beginning of the present century, which laid waste the whole country of Peru in a quarter of an hour, 300 leagues long and twenty wide; a terrible one at Lima, which entirely destroyed that city, and 5000 persons lost their lives; there were seventy four churches, fourteen monasteries, and fifteen hospitals thrown-down; and the lost in effects reckoned immense. This Earthquake continued from October 27 to Nov. 20, 1746, and extended to Cailao, which was also destroyed; in London, Feb. 6, and March 8, 1759, and in several other places in the south of England, April 2, 1750; Grand Cairo had two thirds of the houses, and 40000 inhabitants swallowed up, Sept. 2, 1754; the city of Quito, in Peru, destroyed April 24, 175?; which did considerable damage at [unreadable] 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 100,000 persons were buried in the ruins, and the island divided into two, July 9, 1757; at Bordeaux in France, August 11, 1758; Truxillo in Peru, was swallowed up by one in Nov. 1759 at Martinico, August, 1767; when 1600 persons lost their lives; Gutimala, iin New Spain entirely swallowed up, and man thousand inhabitants perished, December 15, 1773; at Tanais, in Persia, when 1500 houses were thrown down, and great part of Calabria in the island of Sicily was destroyed, & 30,000 people lost their lives, Feb. 25, 178?; 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 18, 1787; in Scotland, Oct. 1791; a slight shock perceived in Pennsylvania early in 1792.

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