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and I9l0. With the exception of the two following these have been 

 incorporated in the ' Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes ' : 1906, 

 January 31, 10 a.m., the following towns were destroyed: Bocagrande, 

 Cape Manglares, Puerto Limones, Salahonda, Las Baras, Trujillo, and 

 Chagal. 1910, March 30 and 31 and April 1, great landslides at Suta- 

 marchin in Boyaca. 



Costa Rica. — Consul F. N. Cox sent a detailed account of the earth- 

 quake of April 12-13, 1910. Shocks commenced April 13, 12.37 a.m. 

 or 6.13 G.M.T. The greatest damage was done at 1.5 a.m. or 6.41 

 G.M.T., and at 8.30 a.m. or 14.6 G.M.T., on April 14. The hypo-centre 

 was south-west of Cartago, which, with San Jose and many villages, 

 suffered great damage. On May 4, 6.50 p.m., or May 5, 0.26 G.M.T. , 

 Cartago, Paraiso, and surrounding hamlets again suffered. The shock 

 was felt in all parts of the Eepublic and also in Bocas del Toro. 



Denmark. — The First Secretary of the British Legation, Mr. J. C. 

 T. Vaughan, forwarded an account of two earthquakes which occurred 

 in 1837 and 1867 in the island of St. Thomas (see St. Thomas). 



Egypt. — Councillor E. W. Graham sends notes on the following 

 three earthquakes: 1847, a minaret was thrown down in Cairo; 1887, 

 Suakin on the Nile Valley was disturbed, houses in Cairo damaged; 

 1906, December 26, the Nile Valley and the Eed Sea coast were 

 shaken, the lighthouses of Shadwan and Ashrafi in the Eed Sea were 

 damaged; origin probably about 26° N. lat. The intensity of these 

 shocks was of the order No. I. 



Fiji. — The Hon. Charles Major reports that no seismological records 

 have been kept in Fiji, and beyond ordinary slight shocks no serious 

 earthquakes have been known to occur in the Colony. 



France. — The Hon. L. D. Carnegie sends a note for Monsieur 

 Pichon which refers to three earthquakes felt in 1889. The first of 

 these occurred on June 11, in the Departement des Bouches du 

 Ehone; destruction occurred within an area of 360 kilometres square. 

 The second occurred on June 23, in the Departement Vendee; no 

 damage. The last took place on August 5, in Bretagne, and was felt 

 throughout Finistere; the damage was small. 



Gambia. — The Governor reports that no earthquakes have been 

 recorded . 



Gilbert and Ellice Islands. — The Eesident Commissioner writes 

 that earthquakes appear to be unknown in that Protectorate. 



Gold Coast. — H.E. Sir J. P. Eodger sends a Eeport of a destructive 

 earthquake which occurred at Accra in 1862 ; Christiansborg Castle 

 was laid in ruins. This was on July 10. In Jamestown all the stone 

 houses were entirely overthrown. 



Greece. — Sir F. E. Hugh Elliot transmits a list prepared from the 

 records at the Observatory at Athens of destructive earthquakes in 

 Greece from 1893 to November 1909. Those which are not in the 

 ' Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes ' are as follow: 1909, June 15, 

 23.26 G.M.T., at Lamia and Domoko, some walls were cracked. 

 1903, August 11, 4.37 G.M.T., at Cythera, the village of Mytata 

 was destroyed; opposite Biaradika the ground was cracked for 200 

 metres; at Cythera and Potamos houses were rendered uninhabitable. 

 1911. E 



