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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147 |1890 IV 13 14 4 | VI |Northern Luzon. Very strong earthquake in | | |Ilocos Norte and Sur, the Mountain | | |Province, Cagayan, and Isabela. A | | |repetition occurring at 20h developed the | | |same intensity. | | | 148 |1891 VI 25 20 10 | VII |Very violent earthquake in eastern | | |Mindanao whose center was in the Agusan | | |River Valley. Slightly damaged buildings | | |at Davao and Butuan, situated 100 | | |kilometers south and north, respectively, | | |of the focus. | | | 149 |1892 III 8 -- -- |VIII |Batanes Islands. Destructive earthquake. | | |All that is known of the effects is that | | |it wrecked some buildings at Santo Domingo | | |and other towns on Batan Island. | | | 150 |1892 III 16 20 58 | X |Disastrous earthquake in the Provinces of | | |Pangasinan, Union, and Benguet. It created | | |great havoc in the masonry buildings, such | | |as churches, _conventos_, court-houses, | | |and schools, besides a few private houses, | | |of 30 of the principal towns within the | | |meizoseismic area, produced great fissures | | |and extensive subsidences in the alluvial | | |plains, and many landslides in the steep | | |mountains of northern Pangasinan. Luckily | | |the falling buildings killed only one or |
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