666 



M. F. DE MONTESSTJS DE BALLORE ON [Nov. 1 896, 



3. Maltese Islands. 

 (Fig. 7.) 



These islands are not very 

 stable, but they are, at all 

 events, more stable than 

 Sicily. Prom them 65 

 earthquakes are recorded. 



4. Cyprus. (Fig. 8.) 



The vibrations propa- 

 gated from earthquakes in 

 Anatolia or Syria have 

 been of frequent occur- 

 rence in this island, and 

 on some occasions have 

 caused damage. It is 

 not certain whether many 

 earthquakes originate in 

 Cyprus ; only 14 are cer- 

 tainly known to have ori- 

 ginated there. 



5. Aden. 



Shocks are not so very 

 uncommon at Aden, and 

 5 have been recorded there. 



Fig. 7. 





MALTA. 



Fig. 8. 



The numbers after place 

 names are those of the 

 recorded shocks. 



CYPRUS. 



6. Shanghai and Hongkong. 



Shocks are of fairly frequent occurrence in both these localities. 

 They are also shaken by the vibrations propagated from the more 

 considerable earthquakes of Formosa. From Shanghai 12 shocks 

 are recorded, and 5 from Hongkong. From Port Hamilton no 

 records are available. 



7. Virgin Islands. 



8, =47 kilom. (1864-1866). S 2 *=23 kilom. 



£/ = 66 kilom. (1869-1879). S'*=32 kilom. 



(5 localities and 656 shocks.) 



The Virgin Islands, more especially St. Thomas, are particularly 

 unstable. It is not easy to say which is the most reliable of the 

 pairs of values given above for the seismicity, for the period 

 1864H866 is very short, and was perhaps preliminary to the 

 great cataclysm of 1867-1868. In this region, submerged areas 

 are, of course, included, and this must be so in the case of all 

 groups of islands. 



