| | |and tile roofs sagged. Slight repetitions | | |marked the succeeding days. Nothing is | | |known of the happenings in the near-by | | |provinces. | | | 32 |1770 XII -- 23 -- |VIII |Destructive earthquake. Mr. Sonnerat | | |states that it wrecked many houses in | | |Manila. This traveler was at the time on | | |board a ship in the very Bay of Manila; | | |hence it is very strange that he does not | | |give the day of the month on which the | | |disaster took place. | | | 33 |1771 II 1 -- -- |VIII |Very severe earthquake which laid in ruins | | |several buildings in Manila, express | | |mention being made of the Church of | | |Nuestra Senora de Guia in Ermita, a suburb | | |of Manila. This is probably the same | | |disturbance which, according to some | | |writers, in the beginning of February | | |damaged the church of Antipolo and others | | |in La Laguna and Cavite Provinces. | | | 34 |1783 IV 19 -- -- | VI |Violent earthquake in Dapitan and the | | |whole of northwestern Mindanao. | | | 35 |1787 V 13 6 -- |VIII |Very violent in southern Panay, | | |especially in the Province of Iloilo. | | | ----+--------------------+-----+------------------------------------------ No. | Date. |Intensity. | | | Epicenter and effects. ----+--------------------+-----+------------------------------------------ | _Y. M. d. h. m._ | | 36 |1787 VII 13 7 -- | X |Panay Island. A terrible earthquake which | | |left the whole island strewn with ruins. | | |Of 15 to 20 churches and _conventos_ in | | |Iloilo Province only two or three remained | | |standing; in the two other provinces, | | |Capiz and Antique, the destruction was | | |less universal. Even the thick walls of | | |the fort at Iloilo were breached in many | | |places. There were subsidences in the | | |plains and landslides in the mountains and | | |mighty fissures opened. It is stated that | | |the victims were numerous: in one building