| | |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 | | |two persons. Repetitions were frequent up | | |to the end of the month; of these three | | |occurring on the 17th and one each on the | | |26th and 28th were of exceptional | | |intensity. | | | 151 |1892 III 17 0 34 | VII |Very violent earthquake in the region | | |mentioned under No. 150. Wrecked some | | |buildings damaged by the preceding. | | | 152 |1893 III 9 0 35 | VI |Central Luzon. Very strong earthquake in | | |the Provinces of Nueva Vizcaya, Benguet, | | |and Pangasinan. | | | 153 |1893 IV 12 13 48 | VI |Very strong earthquake in Camarines, | | |Albay, Sorsogon, Masbate, and northern | | |Samar. Its epicenter was close to Masbate | | |Island. | | | 154 |1893 VI 3 6 23 | VII |Violent earthquake in the whole western | | |part of Mindanao, proceeding from the | | |neighborhood of Illana Bay. | | | ----+--------------------+-----+------------------------------------------ No. | Date. |Intensity. | | | Epicenter and effects. ----+--------------------+-----+------------------------------------------ | _Y. M. d. h. m._ | | 155 |1893 VI 21 14 50 | X |Disastrous earthquake in the Agusan River | | |Valley. The fact that there was no general | | |destruction of buildings with heavy loss | | |of life is due solely to the circumstance | | |that the region affected contained only | | |structures of bamboo and nipa. The effects | | |of the convulsions on the topography of | | |the region give an idea of what the | | |consequences of the quake might have been | | |had it found another class of buildings. | | |There are indications that in the southern