Citation

No Author(s) Listed. The Independent practitioner 1882; 3(7): 501-502.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1882)

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PMID

37825543

PMCID

PMC10062897

Abstract

Two hundred and forty-four earthquakes, it is stated, are known to have occurred during 1881, of which 86 were in winter, 61 in autumn, 56 in spring, and 41 in summer. The earthquake period at Agram, beginning in November, 1880, extended into 1881, in which earth vibrations were observed on twenty-four days, many of the shocks being very violent. Among the great earthquakes of 1881 that of Chios takes the first place. The tremendous first shock in the afternoon of April 3d laid most of the town of Castro in ruins. This earthquake, lasting six days in full strength (with thirty or forty very violent shocks), was felt most in the southern part of the island. On the mainland, the port of Tschesme was half destroyed. In Chios, 4181 persons were killed and about 1000 injured. From April 10th the phenomena gradually abated ; but strong shocks occurred on May 20th, June 10th, August 27th and even in the end of November. The violent earthquake of Ischia (March 4) caused the death of about 150 persons ; it was quite local--confined to the district of Casamicciola and Lacco. A loud noise about 1:05 p.m. was followed by the shock which, lasting seven seconds, wrought most of the ruin ; the movement seemed undulatory and jerky, and threw down whole streets in the upper part of Casamicciola ; in the lower part, and in Lacco, over the hill, only a few houses suffered. A second weaker shock occurred at 4 p.m. The fine seismographs at Vesuvius Observatory and at Naples gave no sign.

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