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THE STANDARD DICTIONARY (>F FACTS 



B. C. 

 Duras, in Greece, buried, with all its inhabitants; 



and twelve cities in Campania also buried, . . . 343 

 Lysimachia and its inhabitants totally buried, . :>:; 



A. D. 



Ephesus and other cities overturned 17 



One accompanied by the eruption of Vesuvius; du- 

 chies of Pompeii and Ilerculaneum buried. . . . 79 

 Four cities in Asia, two in Greece, and two in Galatia 



overturned 107 



A ntioch destroyed 115 



Nicomedia, Csesarea, and Nicsr-a overturned. ... 126 

 In Asia, Pontus,.and Macedonia, 150 cities and 



ti>\vns damaged, . : 357 



Nicomedia again demolished, and its inhabitants 



buried in its ruins 358 



One felt by nearly the whole world 543 



At Constantinople; its edilices destroyed, and thou- 

 sands perished 5 .17 



In Africa; many cities overturned 560 



Awful one in Syria, Palestine, and Asia; more than 

 500 towns were destroyed, and the loss of life 



surpassed all calculations 742 



In France, Germany, and Italy 801 



Constantinople overturned; all Greece shaken, . . 936 



One felt throughout England 1089 



One at Antioch; many towns destroyed, among 



them Mariseum and Slamistria 1114 



Catania, in Sicily, overturned, and 15,000 persons 



buried in the ruins 1137 



One severely felt at Lincoln 1142 



At Calabria; one of its cities and all its inhabitants 



overwhelmed in the Adriatic Sea 1186 



One again felt throughout England; Glastonbury 



destroyed, 1274 



In England; the greatest known there, 1318 



At Naples; 40.000 persons perished 1456 



At Lisbon; 1,500 houses and 30,000 persons buried 

 in the ruins; several neighboring towns ingulfed 



with their inhabitants 1531 



One felt in London; part of St. Paul's and the 



Temple churches fell .1580 



In Japan; several cities made ruins, and thousands 



perished 1596 



Awful one at Calabria 1638 



One in China, when 300,000 persons were buried in 



Pekin alone 1662 



One severely felt in Ireland 1690 



One at Jamaica, which totally destroyed Port Royal, 

 whose houses were ingulfed forty fathoms deep, 



and 300 persons perished 1692 



One in Sicily, which overturned fifty-four cities and 

 towns, and 300 villages. Of Catania and its 

 18,000 inhabitants not a trace remained; more 



than 100,000 lives were lost 1693 



Palermo nearly destroyed ; 6,000 lives lost 1726 



Again in China; and 100,000 people swallowed up 



at Pekin 1731 



In Hungary; a mountain turned round 1736 



One at Palermo, which swallowed up a convent; 



but the monks escaped, 1740 



Lima and Callao demolished ; 18,000 persons buried 



in the ruins, 1746 



In London, a slight shock, February 8th: but 



severer shock. March 8th 1750 



Adrianople nearly overwhelmed 1752 



At Grand Cairo; half of the houses and 40,000 per- 

 sons swallowed up 1 754 



Quito destroyed, 1755 



Great earthquake at Lisbon. In about eight min- 

 utes most of the houses and upward of 50,000 

 inhabitants were swallowed up, and whole streets 

 buried. The cities of Coimbra, Oporto, and 

 Braga suffered dreadfully, and St. Ubes was 

 wholly overturned. In Spain, a large part of 

 Malaga became ruins. One-half of Fez, in Mo- 

 rocco, was destroyed, and more than 12,000 

 Arabs perished there. Above half of the island 

 of Madeira became waste; and 2.000 houses in 

 the island of Mytilene, in the Archipelago, wen- 

 overthrown. This awful earthquake extended 



5,000 miles; even to Scotland 1755 



In Syria, extended over 10,000 square miles; Baal- 

 bee destroyed 1759 



At Martinico, 1,600 persons lost their lives. . . . 1767 

 At Guatemala, which, with 8,000 inhabitants, was 



swallowed up 1773 



A destructive one at Smyrrn 1778 



At Tauris; 15,000 houses thrown down, and multi- 

 tudes burird 1780 



Messina and other towns in Italy and Sicily over- 

 thrown; 40,000 persons perished 1783 



A. 1). 



Archindschan wholly destroyed, and 12,000 per- 

 sons buried in its ruins 1784 



At Borgo di San SepoU-m; many houses and 1,000 



persons swallowed up 1789 



Another fatal one in Sicily 17, i 



In Naples: Vesuvius overwhelmed the city of 

 Torre del Greco 171,4 



In Turkey, where, in three towns, 10,000 persons 

 lost their lives 1794 



The whole country between Santa Fd and Panama 

 destroyed, including Cusco and Quito; 40,000 

 people buried in one second 17 ( .i7 



At Constantinople, which destroyed the royal 

 palace and an immensity of buildings, ami ex- 

 tended into Romania and \\allachia 1800 



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At the Azores; a village of St. Michael's sunk, ;.:;d 



a lake of boiling water appeared in its place, . . 1810 



Awful one at Caraccas (which, see), 1812 



Several throughout India; district of Kutch sunk; 



2,000 persons buried, 1819 



Genoa, Palermo, Rome, and many other towns 

 greatly damaged thousands perish IM'.i 



One in Calabria and Sicily, 1826 



In Spain; Mercia and numerous villages devas- 

 tated; 6,000 persons perish 1829 



In the Duchy of Parma; no less than forty shocks 

 were experienced at Borgotaro; and at Pontre- 

 moli many houses were thrown down, and not a 

 chimney was left standing, . 



A violent one felt in Holland. . . . . 

 At Frosolone, Naples; 6,000 lives lost, 



1,000 



1834 



1836 

 L836 



1836 



1840 



1840 



In Calabria, Cosenza and villages destroyed; 



persons buried, 



In Calabria; 1,000 buried at Rossano, etc., .... 



In many cities of Southern Syria, by which hun- 

 dreds of houses were thrown down, and thou- 

 sands of lives lost, 



At Martinique; nearly half of Port Royal de- 

 stroyed; nearly 700 persons killed, and the 

 whole island damaged 1839 



At Ternate ; the island made a waste, and thousands 

 of lives lost 



Awful and destructive earthquake at Mount Ararat, 

 in one of the districts of Armenia; 3,137 houses 

 were overthrown, and several hundred persons 

 perished 



Great earthquake at Zante, where many persons 

 perished 1840 



At Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, which destroyed 

 nearly two-thirds of the town; between 4,000 



and 5,000 lives were lost 1842 



I At Point a Pitre, Guadaloupe, which was entirely 



destroyed 1843 



At Rhodes and Maori, when a mountain fell in r.t 

 the latter place, crushing a village, and destroy- 

 ing 600 persons 1851 



At Valparaiso, where more than 400 houses were 

 destroyed 1851 



In South Italy; Melfi almost laid in ruins; 14,000 

 lives lost 1851 



At Philippine Isles; Manila nearly destroyed, . . 1852 



In Northwest of England, slight, 1852 



Thebes, in Greece, nearly destroyed, 1853 



St. Salvador, South America, destroyed 1854 



Amasca, in Japan, and Simoda, in Niphon, de- 

 stroyed; Jecldo much injured, 1854 



Broussa, in Turkey, nearly destroyed 1855 



Several villages in Central Europe destroyed, . . . 1855 



Jeddo nearly destroyed, 1855 



, At the island of Great Sanger, one of the Moluccas, 

 volcanic eruption and earthquake; nearly 3,000 

 lives lost 



In the Mediterranean; at Candia, 500 lives lost; 

 Rhodes, 100; and other islands, 150 1856 



In Calabria, Montemurro and many other towns 

 destroyed, and about 22,000 lives lost in a few 

 seconds, 



Corinth nearly destroyed 



At Quito; about 5,000 persons killed, and an im- 

 mense amount of property destroyed 1859 



. At Erzeroum, Asia Minor; above 1,000 persons said 



to have perished 1859 



At San Salvador; many buildings destroyed, no 

 lives lost 1859 



In Cornwall, slight 1859-1860 



At Perugia, Italy; several lives lost 1861 



At Mendoza, South America; about two-thirds of 

 the city and 7,000 lives lost 1861 



In Greece; North Morea, Corinth, and other places 

 injured, 1861 



Guatemala; 150 buildings and fourteen churches 

 destroyed, 1862 



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1857 

 1858 



