Now that these cavities are made in the sun's body by a process of nature similar to our earthquakes does not seem improbable on several accounts.
On the south of Syria, he adds, where the Jordan flows is a country of volcanos; and it is observed that the earthquakes in Syria happen after their rainy season, which is also conformable to a similar observation made by Dr.
It is probably owing to the escape of the elastic vapours from these spiracula that the modern earthquakes are of such small extent compared with those of remote antiquity, of which the vestiges remain all over the globe.
For further information on this part of the subject the reader is referred to Mr. Michell's excellent Treatise on Earthquakes in the Philos.
Twas a work indeed rather to be expected from earthquakes and inundations, then any corrosive waters, and much condemneth the Judgement of Xerxes, that wrought through Mount Athos with Mattocks.
Surely many noble Bones and Ashes have been contented with such hilly Tombs; which neither admitting Ornament, Epitaph or Inscription, may, if Earthquakes spare them, out last all other Monuments.
Others more Ingeniously doubt whether there hath not been a vast tract of land in the Atlantick ocean, which Earthquakes and violent causes have long ago devoured.
The fear of earthquakes and the general desolation had prevented even the Indians from rearing their wigwams there.
About ten years before, that whole region had been convulsed by one of the most terribleearthquakes recorded in history.
This, of course, is what might have been expected, for earthquakes are most characteristic of volcanic regions and of those areas in which mountain-uplifts of recent geological age occur.
It is for the same reason that destructive earthquakes are most likely to occur in the vicinity of coast-ranges which are of comparatively recent geological age.
This character appears at first the more inexplicable, when we consider how jagged and uneven are the rents caused by earthquakes in masses of heterogeneous composition, like those composing the cone of Somma.
Such protrusion may have been brought about by degrees by innumerable shocks of earthquakes repeated after long intervals of time along the same tract of country.
In regions, also, subject to violent earthquakes such springs are frequently observed issuing from rents, usually along lines of fault or displacement of the rocks.
Only on exceptional occasions, duringearthquakes or volcanic eruptions, is their dreamless slumber rudely disturbed.
Once in a million or a half-million years there may have been terrific earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, such as seem to have taken place in Tertiary time, and at the end of the Palaeozoic period.
Over this single frail bridge which escaped the floods and the tornadoes and the earthquakes of those terrible ages we must have passed.
But neither earthquakes nor the plague, to which it was also peculiarly liable, could divert trade and prosperity from it.
The town suffered considerably from earthquakes in July and August 1909.
Earthquakes were at one time rather common in New England, but nothing to be compared to their frequency in England.
No such general and continued succession of earthquakes occurred during the other periods embraced in the tables, and the mean of the following five years was very low, embracing the memorable cold summer of 1816.
The number of instances of the concurrence of ordinary earthquakes and hurricanes might easily be increased, but the preceding suffice to show the generality of their coincidence, both as to time and place.
Destructive earthquakes in the West Indies, a volcanic eruption at Guadaloupe, followed by hurricanes in the Atlantic.
Webster remarks, as the result of observation, during the 17th century, that earthquakes had a N.
Turning to the table of volcanic action, and of earthquakes, found in the Report of the British Association for 1854, we find that year was remarkable for earthquakes in the United States and South America.
In volcanic regions, earthquakesand hurricanes often occur almost simultaneously, but in no certain order, and without any volcanic eruption being observed.
Monarchs and conquerors there Proud o'er prostrate millions trod-- The earthquakes of the human race; Like them, forgotten when the ruin That marks their shock is past.
About the year 1727, just at the time when earthquakes were prevalent in New England, and shook many tall sinners down upon their knees, there lived near this place a meagre miserly fellow of the name of Tom Walker.
In former earthquakes Callao has suffered terribly from the effects of the great sea-wave.
From these lakes the volcanoes would be fed, and they would be the cause of earthquakes and land-upheavals or land-sinkings.
It may be difficult, perhaps, to look on the effects which are ascribed to ancient earth-throes without imagining for a while that the power of modern earthquakesis altogether less.
In that land earthquakes are nearly as common as rain storms are with us; and shocks by which whole cities are changed into a heap of ruins are by no means infrequent.
Some choose to attribute them to the successive concussions of earthquakes through a course of centuries.
Earthquakes have been remarked by some to happen usually upon sudden changes of weather, and particularly after violent heats; but I do not vouch this upon my own experience, which has been pretty ample.
The walls of the apartment were simply whitewashed, and the window and doors were arched as a precaution against accidents in the earthquakes so frequent in this country.
Even earthquakes fail to interrupt the triumphs of the cooks.
For earthquakes they care little, but the freaks of the devilish oil, which is brought here secretly, for use in the Nevada mines, have made them ready to swear that it is itself a demon.
Earthquakes throw down tracts of land beneath the sea, and elevate other tracts from the bottom of the ocean.
He was minister of the provinces of Tagalos, where he built the convent of Tagui; it was a magnificent work before it suffered ruin in the earthquakes of 1645, which overthrew the most sumptuous edifices.
The balance of this chapter and the following one deal with the disastrous earthquake of 1645, and earthquakes in general.
The fruits of the earth were very plentiful, and no earthquakes or other disasters occurred.
The great earthquakes of Manila happened during the term of that gentleman, and the wars with the Dutch (all of which will be related).
Why, you see the earthquakes there come so often that they keep a person bouncing up and down just as if he were riding horseback all the time--so your uncle said.
He would often tell, too, of what a good place it was to sleep, because there are three or four earthquakes every night which toss you up and turn you over and save you the trouble.
This dinner was given in a house on Calle Anloague, and although we do not remember the number we will describe it in such a way that it may still be recognized, provided the earthquakes have not destroyed it.
It may be interesting to artists to learn that in this present year 1868, most of the quaint old Moorish streets and buildings are intact--neither disturbed by earthquakes nor 'improved' out of sight.
Upon the island of Ischia, off the Bay of Naples, the shocks from recent earthquakes have been strangely concentrated near the town of Casamicciola, which was last destroyed in 1883.
The known recent uplift of the coast of Chili, particularly in the northern sections and during the earthquakes of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, lends great interest to this topographic peculiarity.
The complex adjustments in level of the surface of the ground at the time of sensible earthquakes are many of them made apparent in no other way than by the derangements of the surface water.
From what has been said, it is obvious that much of the danger from earthquakes can be met by a choice of site away from lines of important fracture and from areas of relatively loose foundation.
Earthquakes are usually preceded for a brief instant by subterranean rumblings whose intensity appears to bear no relation to the shocks which follow.
In contrast to the formation of fused outlets, these ruptures of a portion of the mountain’s flank were always accompanied by vigorous localearthquakes of short duration.
Wherever earthquakes have been felt, they are certain to occur again; and wherever mountains are growing or changes of level are in progress, there no record of past earthquakes is required in order to forecast the future seismic history.
Since earthquakes give notice of a change of level of the ground, the special danger zones from this source are the growing mountain systems which are usually found near the borders of the sea.
Inasmuch as no earthquakes are felt in connection with such outflows as have been described, it is probable that the hot lava fuses a passageway for itself into some open channel underneath the flanks of the mountain.
Map of the island of Ischia to show how the shocks of recent earthquakes have been concentrated at the crossing point of two fractures (after Mercalli and Johnston-Lavis).
Although the future earthquakesmay be predicted, the time of their coming is, fortunately or unfortunately, still hidden from us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earthquakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
