| | |great confusion as to the days and months | | |in which they occurred. | | | 23 |1716 IX 24 -- -- | VII |Vicinity of Taal Volcano. Violent in | | |Manila and the Provinces of Rizal, Laguna, | | |Cavite, and Batangas. Connected with an | | |eruption of the volcano. At each spasm of | | |the latter the earth shook so violently | | |that many buildings in Manila and the | | |provinces mentioned suffered much harm, | | |especially those in the vicinity of Lake | | |Bombon, within which is situated the said | | |volcano. | | | 24 |1728 XI 28 -- -- | IX |Remarkable on account of its having been | | |very perceptible throughout the entire | | |Archipelago. Caused considerable damage in | | |Manila and towns in southern Luzon. | | | 25 |1730 -- -- -- -- | IX |Destructive in the Provinces of Tayabas | | |and Laguna; ruined the church and the | | |church and _convento_ at Mauban and other | | |buildings in this and other towns of the | | |two provinces. | | | 26 |1743 -- -- -- -- | IX |Destructive in Tayabas Province, wrecking | | |masonry structures in the town of Tayabas | | |and others. | | | ----+--------------------+-----+------------------------------------------ No. | Date. |Intensity. | | | Epicenter and effects. ----+--------------------+-----+------------------------------------------ | _Y. M. d. h. m._ | | 27 |1749 VIII 12 9 -- | IX |A violent eruption of Taal Volcano, which | | |caused great havoc in all the towns on the | | |shores of Lake Bombon. The shocks which | | |accompanied each of the intermittent | | |outbursts of the volcano were so severe | | |that they left hardly any building | | |undamaged throughout the provinces in the | | |neighborhood of Manila--Rizal, Laguna, | | |Cavite, Batangas, Tayabas, and in northern | | |Mindoro. The convulsions of the ground | | |were very remarkable; displacement | | |occurred and fissures, both wide and deep,