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Time. 



Oct. 



12 

 €tfter 12 



13 



22 

 23 



Nov. 7 

 10 



Dec. 5 

 6 

 12 



Place. 



Arequipa'.. 

 Salvador, C'l 



Am. 8..J7A.M 

 " " 11.36 P.H 



Nicaragua, 



11 P.M. . 



Buenos ( . . 

 Ayres. | 



Wolfeboro, 

 N. H 



Dominica . . . 



Cliiriqul 



Bombay 



Smyrna, 2.30 

 p.M 



Salvador, 

 Gen. Am. 



Simla 



Macedonia, 



11 P.M. . .. 

 Portsmouth, 



N. H 



Valparaiso . . 



Brazil 



Utah, U. S. . . 



Serampore . . 



CharacterUtiet. 



Not very severe 



Slight 



Strong shock lasting 19 seconds 



Two others. Dates not given 



Slioclf at fort La Libertad 



The shocks commenced at 11 p.m. of the 22d 

 and continued till 8 a.m. of the 23d. Thirty- 

 eight or forty shocks were felt in all. The 

 townof Oraii was entirely destroyed. It was 

 also reported that a volcano had burst out 

 in the province of Ji^juy. 



Violent 



Felt also in others of the W. I. islands 



Near beginning of the month 



Middle of the month. Slight 



Slight 



Strong 



Characteristics not given 



Two shocks 



Slight 



On two days in early part of the month 



On nine days during the month 



Two severe shocks In Iron Co. dur'g the night. 



One slight shock in the morning 



Two shocks between 10 and 11 p.m; the second 

 and strongest lasted ten seconds, moving 

 from north to south. These were felt also 

 at Rangoon, Prome, Hazadak, Calcutta^ 

 Ducca, and Akyab. 



Authoritiet. 



Daily papera 

 Nature v. 212 



V. 138 

 Dispa'hofLt. 

 Gov. Hilarion 

 Carrasco and 

 letter of Dr.J. 

 Aguirre. 



Daily papera 



Nature v. 



90 

 412 



132 

 212 



132 



Daily papers 

 Telegram 



In preparing the foregoing catalogue, I have endeavored to 

 make it as reliable as possible, though I have met with not a 

 little difficulty on account of the great lack of definiteness in most 

 of the cases reported. Shocks that are characterized as severe in 

 some localities would doubtless have been reported as slight ones 

 if they had occurred in places where earthquakes are frequent. 

 Also, where a series has occurred at a given place, it is often the 

 case that only a few of the most prominent are reported, or that 

 they are spoken of as having taken place on "several days." Thus 

 A. B. Meyer writes as follows: — "In the month of August there 

 was at Gorontalo a series of earthquakes, all of which I did not 

 notice in my diary, some of them very severe. Shocks so severe 

 and numerous have not been experienced for years at that place." 

 Though the catalogue is, doubtless, far from being complete, yet 

 I think it will be readily seen that there was an unusual number 

 during the year. It will be remembered by members of the Acad- 

 emy, that, at the second meeting in February, 1871, 1 read a paper 



