One of the Osaka journals publishes an interesting statement of similar disasters in eras. We are told that in the 5th month of the Lith year of Teikwan (A.D. 869) there was a earthquake "in Muteu province (the present provinces of ikuzen, Rikuchu and Rikuoku). Over' 1,000 of the inhabitants perished. In 1601 quake in Kazusa province accompanied Matsumai was swept away bya tidal wave; and ten years later (Ist year of Horyaku era) there was a terrible earthquake in Echigo province. In 1804 Sakata, farther north, was demolished by an earthquake. Since then and within the memory of people still living there have been several calamities of the kind and some of these, the tidal wave at' Shimosa, the great earthquake at Yedo, Bandaizan, and the up-heaval in Aichi and Gifu Prefectures are comparatively fresh in memory. T have said that the tidal wave of the 15th was accompanied by seismic disturbances, From the evening ofthe date mentioned to noon of the following day no. less than 150 shocks of varying intensity were recorded at Kofu, Miyagi, Fukushima, and Ishimaki.. Some of the disturbances were apparently felt in Tokio as the Central Meteorological Observatory reports there were 21 shocks during the twenty-four hours alluded to. Several officials from government departments have been despatched to the scene of the disaster, and one or two of the leadin, Japanese newspapers have sent forward special correspondents.
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