6 •Ksco'Ll, Giialcinalan Earthquakes and Eruption of igo2. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



Fig. I, PL 1. 

 Eruption of Santa Maria. October 24-27th, 1902. 



Photo taken from Quezaltenango (protected) side at the 

 first sign of daylight : on the further side the darkness was 

 complete till sunset on the 27th. The new crater is situated 

 low down on the further side of the cone, to the protection of 

 which Quezaltenango owed its safety. 



Fig. 2. PI. I. 



iNTERirtR OF New Crater of Santa Maria. January, 1907. 



The middle-distance shows southern crater-wall (about 

 1,500 ft. high), with hot lake and steam jet at base. The 

 devastated slopes in the background — in the direction of the 

 Mexican frontier — were formerly covered with rich vegetation. 

 The cone of the Santa Maria rises to the right of the picture : 

 to the left some 40 miles distant is the Pacific Ocean. 



