Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines - With an Appendix: Earthquakes in the Marianas Islands 1599-1909 by Miguel Saderra Masó
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| | |Pandacan (near Manila), and many houses.
| | |It is stated that the damage was | | |(relatively) vastly greater in the | | |Provinces of Bataan, Cavite, and Batangas, | | |where many fissures opened and subsidences | | |and landslides occurred. The zone most | | |severely chastised seems to have stretched | | |from the Zambales Mountain Range as far as | | |the coasts of Batangas and Northern | | |Mindoro. Aftershocks were frequent until | | |the middle of October. | | | 50 |1852 IX 25 -- -- | VI |Very strong earthquake in Camarines and | | |Albay Provinces. | | | 51 |1852 XII 24 -- -- | IX |Destructive earthquake in Batangas | | |Province and northern Mindoro. Ruined | | |many buildings, among which were the | | |church of Taal and the church and | | |_convento_ of Bauang; the church of | | |Batangas likewise suffered severely. | | | 52 |1853 -- -- -- -- |VIII |Destructive earthquake in Camarines | | |Province. Made ruins in many towns of the | | |southeastern part of the province, express | | |mention being made of the church, | | |_convento_, tribunal, and the schools of | | |Pulangui. | | | 53 |1855 III 22 -- -- |VIII |Very violent earthquake in southeastern |
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