CATALOGUE OF DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKES 



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1755 Dec. 21 

 1755 Dec. 20-27 



1755 

 1755-0 



Dec. 30 



Italy, Palermo 1 B. 



Italy, Narni in (Perugia) II B. 



West Indies, St. Domingo, Port-au-Frinee II M. 



Italy, Eastern Riviera I B. 



Portugal (Traz-os-Montes), Torte-de-Moncorvo I M. 



Italy, Nizza and Oneglia I B. 



England, Dartmoor I M. & \V. 



Portugal, at the mouths of the Mondego and Vouga, 



Averro II M. 

 China (Chehkiang), Chiahsing, Haiyen, Tunghsiuug in 



Chiansing Fu, Huchou Fu I Ilo. 



Greece, Zante II M. 

 Formosa, Shoka, Kagi I H. 

 Italy, Citta di Castello (Perugia) I B. 

 Italy, Frascati, Velletri and Marino in (Latium) I B. 

 •Iceland, Olfus, 11-12 farms and one church fell II Th. 

 Japan, Kioto I O. 

 Italy, Modena I B. 



Italy, Luserna, Perosa, Susa (Piedmont) I B. 

 Italy, Citta di Pieve (Perugia) I B. 

 Italy, San Gemini (Perugia) I B. 

 China (Yunnan), Ning in Lilian Fu III Ho. 

 France, Vorreppe, two leagues from Grenoble II M. 

 13h. 0m. G.M.T. Philippines, S. Luzon (Batangas, Miudoro, 



Cavite, Tayabas, Laguna), Manila II S.M. 

 Formosa, Tamsui II H. 



Mexico, Acapulco, Mexico ; sea waves III O.B. 

 Turkey, Constantinople, Nicomcdia, also at Adrianople 



and Asia Minor, Diarbekir, and Armenia, and at 



Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt II M. ? two 



earthquakes. 

 Iceland, Krisuvik I Th. 



China (Yunnen), Yihmen and Linun Fu II Ho. 

 Servia, Vranje, Mastanica, Ristobac II O.D. 

 Japan, Nikko I O. 

 Ecuador, Quito III R.S. 

 Northern Persia, Tabriz, Kaschan, Ispahan and Taurus, 



40,000 perished III M. 

 Iceland, Skagafjordr, Eyafjordr, Skjalfandi, north coast 



Husavik, with eruption of Katla III Th. 

 Italy, Chambery in Savoy I B. 



Italy, Island of Ponza 1 B. The Lisbon earthquake. 

 Portugal, the Great Earthquake of Lisbon. Faro, Sentuval, 



Cascaez, slight damage at most of the towns in 



Portugal, Seville, St. Lucar, Xcres, strong in south 



Spain; sea waves III M. 

 Spain, Lisbon II M. 

 Spain, Gibraltar II M. 

 England (Herefordshire) I M. & W. 

 U.S.A., New England, provinces of (Massachusetts and 



New Hampshire), also at New York, Philadelphia, 



Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, Annapolis, also at 



Halifax, Lake St. George II M. 

 Spain, Gibraltar I M. 

 Azores, seismic or volcanic ? M. 

 Morocco, Mequinez, slight shocks were felt along Rhine, the 



in the Breisgau, at Aix in Savoy III M. 

 Switzerland, Brieg, Valais I B. 

 Through nit Switzerland and parts of France, Bavaria, 



Swabia, the Tyrol, the Italian Alps, Turin, Milan, 



Piedmont, Savoy, Naples, Brieg and the Valais, 



the whole chain of the Alps and Jura. Chiavenna, 



Aigle, Lake of Geneva, Glisa, Nutria II M. 

 Switzerland. Brieg, aLso violent shocks the whole country 



round, also Lisbon and Algarbia, Algarve ? Ill M. 

 Germany and Belgium, Lower Rhine, Maestricht, Sedan, 



Brussels, Liege, Chesnie and Cologne I M. 

 Switzerland, Brieg I M. 

 Italy, Ancona I B. 



