286 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 



Punjaub, the north-west province of India, no injury of note 

 occasioned. 



February 7th, at Carthagena, New Grenada. This earthquake was 

 of great severity, and, had it continued a few seconds longer, would have 

 destroyed the entire city. As it was, much damage was effected. 



February 20th, at San Martha, S. A. ; somewhat severe. 



February 25th, repeated shocks at Trebizond, Asia Minor, and the 

 neighboring countries. 



February 26th, at the Sandwich Islands. 



April 2d, the great earthquake of Chili, S. A. 



April llth, at the Island of Rhodes, destroying the city of Macri. 

 A volcano opened near the port of Laviral, on the same island. 



April 17th, shocks of unwonted severity in various parts of Sweden 

 and Norway. 



May 17th, at the Island of Gaudaloupe. 



May 15th, shocks experienced in California and New Mexico. 



May 26th, at Copiapo, S. A. 



July 1st, in Hungary and Southern Austria. 



July 2d, severe shocks were felt in Missouri, especially in the vicin- 

 ity of New Madrid. The earth opened in several places, sand and 

 water being thrown up. This is the first time the earth has opened, 

 or that a blow has occurred, since the " great earthquake" of 1812. 



July 14th, in the kingdom of Naples. This earthquake was one of 

 great severity, and was attended with great loss of life and property. 



August 5th, in the Island of Martinique, accompanied with a ter- 

 rible eruption of the long dormant volcano, Pelee. 



October 17th and 20th, in Albania and Dalmatia. This earthquake 

 caused whole villages to disappear, and a great extent of country to 

 be submerged. 



November 12th, shocks experienced in California. 



Since the commencement of 1852, two earthquake shocks have been 

 experienced in the month of January ; cne on the 10th, in Massachu- 

 setts, sensibly felt at New Bedford, and extending west as far as Con- 

 necticut River ; the other on the 26th, in Mississippi. 



The following is an account of the great earthquake of July 14th, 

 occurring in the kingdom of Naples : 



This convulsion appears to have had its origin in the volcanic region 

 of Mount Volture, about one hundred miles to the south-east of Naples. 

 It is a detached and isolated eminence, 3000 feet in elevation ; its slopes 

 and summits are broken into numerous craters, of the vitality of which 

 no record exists, but which bear evidence of eruptive violence at some 

 remote period. 



The city of Melfi, containing 10,000 inhabitants, near the above 

 mountain, was totally destroyed, with a great loss of life. No previous 

 warning was given to the "inhabitants, but the whole city was pros- 

 trated at one shock. This shock was followed by six others, of less 

 intensity, occurring at intervals, within thirty hours. A large number 

 of small cities and villages experienced a like fate with Melfi. The 

 estimated loss of life over the whole district was upwards of 2500. 



