| | |assuming a violent character. | | | 15 |1648 -- -- -- -- |VIII |Southern Luzon. Very violent earthquake, | | |damaging many buildings (Von Hoff). | | | 16 |1653 V 1 -- -- | VI |Earthquake in Manila and surrounding | | |provinces. | | | 17 |1658 VIII 20 17 -- | IX |Destructive earthquake. Some historians | | |maintain that it was as severe as that of | | |1645; but it caused fewer ruins, partly on | | |account of its short duration, partly | | |because it found buildings of less height | | |and greater power or resistance than those | | |erected before 1645. Nevertheless it | | |destroyed the monastery of Santa Clara and | | |did great damage to the churches and | | |monasteries of the Dominicans and | | |Recollects, likewise to the archiepiscopal | | |palace, the Jesuit College, and a | | |considerable number of private buildings. | | |The epicentral region appears to have | | |included only the southern part of Luzon. | | | 18 |1665 VI 19 -- -- |VIII |Destructive in Manila and adjacent | | |provinces. In the ruins of numerous houses | | |19 persons perished and many more were | | |injured. Of public buildings only the | | |Jesuit Church is mentioned as having | | |suffered to some extent. | | | 19 |1675 II -- -- -- |VIII |Destructive in northern Mindoro and | | |Batangas Province. Mention is made of | | |extensive landslides, the opening of many | | |fissures and the subsidence of large | | |tracts on the beach of the northeast | | |coast of Mindoro. The repetitions were many | | |and severe. | | | 20 |1683 VIII 24 -- -- | VII |Damaged some buildings in Manila. | | | 21 |1687 II -- -- -- | VI |Several violent earthquakes, which, | | |however, caused no notable damages. | | | 22 |1699 -- -- -- -- | VII |Many chroniclers assure us that during | | |this year and the following destructive | | |earthquakes visited Manila; but there is