Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines | Page 4

| 2 |1600 I 2 0 0 |VIII |Earthquake of destructive
force and long | | |duration in Manila; extent of damage | | |unknown. | | |
3 |1600 XI -- -- -- | VI |Violent and protracted earthquake. | | | 4 |1601 I
16 0 -- |VIII |Manila and adjacent provinces. Did | | |considerable
damage to some churches and | | |many private houses in Manila. Its | |
|duration was unusually great, it being | | |said that during 7 minutes the
shocks were | | |almost continuous. There were several dead | | |and a
great number of injured. The | | |repetitions were frequent throughout
the | | |year. | | | 5 |1608 XII 3 -- -- | VI-|Leyte Island. Violent chiefly in
the | | VII |country around Dulag and Palo (E coast of | | |northern
Leyte). It does not appear to | | |have been destructive. | | | 6 |1610 XI --

-- -- | IX |Manila and provinces east of it. Several | | |writers call it a
"terrible earthquake | | |which progressed from E to W." | | | 7 |1620 -- --
-- -- | IX |Panay Island. Great convulsions of the | | |ground; the Aclan
River changed its | | |course. The few stone buildings in the | | |affected
districts, as, for instance, the | | |church at Passi, Province of Iloilo, were
| | |badly cracked, the wooden structures | | |either fell, owing to the
snapping of the | | |uprights, or remained inclined in various | |
|directions. The provinces which suffered | | |most were those of Iloilo
and Capiz. | | | 8 |1627 VIII -- -- -- | X |Northern Luzon. The historians
mention it | | |as one of the earthquakes which caused the | | |greatest
convulsions in northern Luzon, | | |especially in Ilocos Norte and
Cagayan, | | |but above all in the region of the Central | | |Central
Cordillera, Lepanto, and Bontoc. | | |The data are somewhat vague. It is
said | | |that part of the northern Caraballo | | |Mountains subsided. | | | 9
|1628 -- -- -- -- | IX |Camarines and Albay. A destructive | | |earthquake
in which, it is said, a | | |mountain burst and emitted a river of | | |water
and mud which swept away the town | | |of Camarines and others. The
name of | | |Camarines was at the time used to | | |designate the present
town of Camalig | | |and the district near the southern slopes | | |of
Mayon Volcano. The flood mentioned | | |was probably an avalanche of
water, sand, | | |volcanic ashes, and lapilli, such as also | | |on other
occasions have occurred on the | | |slopes of the same volcano during
periods | | |of torrential rains. | | |
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Date. |Intensity. | | | Epicenter and effects.
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d. h. m. | | 10 |1636 XII 21 -- -- | IX |Western Mindanao. Destructive
earthquake. | | |The epicenter appears to have been in | | |Illana Bay.
Great landslides are reported | | |to have occurred at Point Flechas
which is | | |between the Bays of Illana and Sibuguey. | | | 11 |1641 I 4 --
-- | X |Northern Luzon. Destructive earthquake, | | |accompanied by
great landslides in the | | |mountains and eruptions of water and mud | |
|in the region of northern Luzon which | | |comprises the Provinces of
the Ilocos, of | | |Cagayan, and the Cordillera Central. All | | |the
historians of the Archipelago mention | | |this cataclysm which occurred
shortly | | |after the almost simultaneous eruptions of | | |Sanguir and
Jolo. | | | 12 |1645 XI 30 20 -- | X |The most terrible earthquake

recorded in | | |the annals of the Archipelago. It might | | |almost be said
that from Manila to Cagayan | | |and Ilocos Norte it left no stone upon
the | | |other. In the capital, where during the | | |preceding fifty years a
great number of | | |stone buildings had been erected, | | |magnificent
churches, palaces, and public | | |buildings, as well as private residences
| | |and villas, the destruction was frightful. | | |Ten churches were
wrecked entirely, to | | |wit: the Royal Chapel, Cathedral, Santo | |
|Domingo, those of the Recollects and | | |Franciscans, Santiago, San
Antonio, | | |Nuestra Señora de Guia, and the parish | | |churches of
Binondo and San Miguel; only | | |San Agustin and the Jesuit Church
remained