1895 
Janiltepeo 
(Oaxaca) 
felt here as throughout this region and on December 30 # *94, came 
another shock still heavier in this place which cracked the walls of 
many of the adobe buildings and one corner of the new official build¬ 
ing that is being erected here of brick, 
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Pram the time of the earthquake of November 2, up to the present 
date, earthquakes of slight force accompanied by a rumbling noise have 
been of almost daily occurrence and some days from S to 5 occur. 
The Jefe Politico, Cristobal Palacio, recently made a visit to the 
extinct crater of Chacana on the seashore near here (close to Tututepec) 
to see if he could find any signs of recent disturbance, but none were 
noted. The volcano is a low hill cm the coast and has considerable 
sulphur mixed with scoriae and so fearth on its sides and at the summit 
a temperature of 51° Cent, was observed in crevices from which gases 
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were exhaled. 
The Jefe told me that near Chacana is a somewhat higher hill called 
Cerro He 
also said to be an extinct volcano. The reason he made 
the trip was because he had heard many subterranean reports and the 
rumblings accompanying shocks usually from that direction. The next a.m, 
(at 8 o*clock on the 29th) as I was leaving the town behind me, I heard 
two muffled reports like distant cannon shots, both in the direction of 
t^is old volcano. No shock was perceptible. 
The people of Jarailtepeo have been so alarmed by these numerous 
Shocks, etc,, that they have built a jacal in which the school is held 
and everyone living in adobe houses has constructed a jaeal in which 
they sleep in an open space free from danger of falling walls at night. 
In the day they use the adobe buildings. The Jefe has his sleeping 
jacal in front of the office, I was given a room in an old adobe 
building with large cracks in the walls while the family occupied a 
newly built jacal in front of the house. During the night two shocks 
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