360 C. G. Rockwood—American Earthquakes. 
nerergiale Connecticut, southern Rhode Island and adjacent 
rts of Massachusetts, and was so reported by many newspapers. 
t appears, however, that a brilliant meteor passed over the 
tion of the occurrence by Prof. H. A. Newton of Yale College, 
renders it probable that all the phenomena of vibration and noise 
were due to the explosion of this meteor and not to an earthquake. 
—“A strong earthquaixe shock was felt at Monte oink province of © 
Feb. 28. 
Manobi, Ecuador. The earth trembled a several seconds, but no damage was 
done. ‘le (N. J.) Daily Advertise 
Mar. 5.—A shock at Tarbo, State oF oo (U.S. of Colombia), 
pay ae to Carthagena on the Atlat 
Mar. 7.—At 23" 23" a ae hick . “Ane ee 
pia. C 
Atrato it was sharp but Feb dangerous. In the State of Antioquia - 
it was more severe; and in the towns of Ant tioquia, Santa [osa, 
‘oS pm ge and others, the lata and other buildings were 
injur 
This and the as preceding notices are from Panama letters 
in ie Pe Oe Be 
—At i. 57™ and 11" 7™ two Hating shocks felt at 
Waterloo, St. Johns, and Cowansville, Quebe 
Mar. 11,—At 18" 57 a slight shock with Sahin was felt in 
parts of Harford and Baltimore Counties, Maryland; sufficiently 
strong to rattle dishes and alarm many recites A second shock 
was fe seas to have occurred between midnight and 1” of the 12th. 
Mar. 23,—At 21" 25" a ees shock at Huntingdon, Quebec.— 
Canario Meteorol. Serv 
Mar. 27.—At oe 35" a slight neat at Iquique, Peru, preceded 
. ¥. Tim . 
by ita noise 
Mar. 30.—At ah ag 45", 7°62" 8 15™ light shocks were felt 
at San Francisco, Cal. and southward. At Watsonville, Santa 
Cruz County, nine shocks were felt; at Hollister, San Ben ito: 
ei plate glass windows were "broken, and brick walls 
ril 1.—At 1" a smart shock at Hamilton, Ont. — Canadian — 
Apri 
Meteorol. Serv. 
April 2 — 
Francisco, Oa U.S, 
April 12 
thirty eeaniale. vibration s. S.W. t 
.—Newspaper advices from abla iain June, contain 
April vague re} 
of seismic area. fa the valley of the Atrato, — of Oc Colombia, oor 
the last of April, by which Rio Sucio, forty m the Atlanti 
durin 
Turbo, on the Gulf of baa suffered injury; but bere pire of the phenomen& 
to hand 
have not come 
. 
8" 50" two light — north to south, at San 
pals th. Rev 
Pech phe felt at Cairo, Ill, lasting 
N.N. 
