﻿14 C. G. Rockwood, Jr. — American Earthquakes. 



Aug. 13.— A light shock (IV) was felt at St. Kitts, West Indies. 

 — JST. T. Tribune. 



Aug. 14. — 23 h 5 m , a very light shock (II) at Garrettsville, 

 Portage County, Ohio. — U. S. Weath. Rev. 



Aiig. 19. — A moderate shock (V) at Valparaiso, Chili. — N. Y. 

 Times. 



Aug. 30. — Light shocks (IV) felt at Jamaica, W. I., in the 

 evening. — JV. Y. Tribune. 



Sept. 4. — 9 h 40 m , a light shock (IV) was felt in the villages of 

 Campbellford, Hastings and Norwood, Ontario. — U. S. Weath. 

 Rev. 



Sept. 13. — 4 h 34 m , a light shock (IV) in southern California. 

 It was felt along the coast from Los Angeles to San Diego and 

 inland to San Bernardino. At Los Angeles the direction was 

 given as southwest to northeast; at San Diego, where two shocks 

 were felt, lasting in all twelve seconds, the direction was east- 

 west ; at Murrietta it was the same and three shocks were 

 reported ; at Cahuenga it was northwest-southeast and duration 

 about three seconds. The time stated above is that reported by 

 the U. S. Signal Service observer at San Diego, reports at other 

 stations vaguely given varied from 4 h to 5 h . 



Sept. 26. — 16 h , reports of earthquake at this time in Washington County, 

 Pennsylvania, were due to the passage of a meteorite and not to any terrestrial 

 disturbance. 



Oct. 9. — 8 b , a moderate shock (V), south to north, at Olympia, 

 W. T. 



Oct. 9. — 23 h 36 m , a moderate earthquake (V) was felt in Vir- 

 ginia. It was more severe at Lynchburg, Campbell County, and 

 Staunton, Augusta County, and vicinity, where windows and fur- 

 niture were shaken and some persons ran out of their houses in 

 alarm. It was felt also at Petersburg, where many were waked 

 by shaking windows ; very slightly at Richmond ; and by one 

 person, at 23 h 42 m in Washington, D. C. In the latter place it 

 was not noticed at the Signal Service office, nor at the Naval 

 Observatory, and left no trace on the records of the self-register- 

 ing barometers. At Lynchburg the direction was north-south, 

 and both here and at Variety Mills in Nelson County, a second 

 shock occurred about an hour later. 



Oct. 10. — Between l h and 2 h three very light shocks (III), each 

 of about one second duration and separated by an interval of 

 six seconds, at East Portland, Oregon. — U. S. Weath. Rev. 



Oct. 11. — In the evening a destructive earthquake (IX) occurred 

 throughout the Republic of Nicaragua. It was felt at San Jose 

 at 22 h 30 m . The following account is given by Earl Flint, M.D., 

 of Rivas. 



