1814
- February 1
- Volcano Mayon on Luzon, Philippines erupts killing 1,200. [1]
1815
- April 5
- Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java). [1]
1816
- June 6
- 10 inches of snowfall in New England, USA; the "year without a summer" (due to volcano Krakatoa). [1]
1819
- June 16
- In Kachchh (Rann of Kutch), Gujarat, India, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs. 1,500 - 2,000 killed. [53]
1821
- December 19
- Eyjafjallajokull mountain-glacier on Iceland begins volcanic eruptions. (Activity continues for just over a year.) [838.14]
1822
- October 8
- First eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley. [1]
- October 12
- Second eruption of Galunggung (Java) destroys summit of mountain. [1]
1823
- January 21
- Eyjafjallajokull volcano on Iceland ceases eruptions, having started December 19, 1821. (It will come back to life again in 2010.) [838.14]
1828
- December 28
- 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Echigo, Japan; 30,000 killed. [1]
1834
- August 18
- Mount Vesuvius erupts. [1]
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1835
- February 20
- In Chile, a magnitude 8.5 earthquake occurs, causing extreme damage to Concepción. [1] [53]
1836
- December 27
- Worst English avalanche kills eight of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex). [1]
1837
- January 22
- Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands. [1]
1839
- January 11
- Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal; 700 die. [1]
1842
- November 22
- Mount Saint Helens in Washington state, USA, erupts. [1]
1843
- January 5
- In Marked Tree, Arkansas, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs. Strongest to occur in the region since the 1811-12 sequence. Damage severe at Memphis, Tennessee; the earth sinks in places near New Madrid, Missouri. [53]
- November 13
- Mount Rainier in Washington State erupts. [1]
1852
- November 23
- Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet (9m). [1]
1854
- April 16
- San Salvador destroyed by earthquake. [1]
1855
- January 23
- In Wellington, New Zealand, a magnitude 8.0 - 8.2 earthquake occurs. Four people die, one in Wellington and three in Wairarapa. [53]
1857
- January 9
- In Fort Tejon, California, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurs on the San Andreas fault, which ruptures a distance of about 300 kilometres. [1] [53]
- March 21
- Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die. [1]
- December 16
- In Naples, Italy, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. 11,000 dead. [1] [53]
1865
- August 17
- Near Memphis, Tennessee, USA, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurs. Felt from St. Louis, Missouri, to Jackson, Mississippi. [53]
- October 8
- In Santa Cruz Mountains, California, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs; severe damage in several towns. [1] [53]
1867
- March 11
- Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano). [1]
- April 24
- In Manhattan, Kansas, USA, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurs. [53]
1868
- March 29
- In Ka'u District, Hawaii, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. [53]
- April 2
- In Ka'u District, Island of Hawaii, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurs. This earthquake causes 77 deaths (tsunami, 46; landslide, 31). [53]
- August 13
- In Arica, Peru, a magnitude 8.5-9.0 earthquake occurs, with catastrophic tsunamis killing 25,000 in South America. Damage extreme (US$300 million). [1] [53] [383.A8]
- October 21
- Severe earthquake at 7:53 AM, centered in Hayward, California. [1]
1870
- October 20
- In Canada, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurs, centered between Montreal and Quebec in the Saint Lawrence Valley. The shock is felt over an area estimated to be at least a million square miles, including Sault Sainte Marie. [53]
1871
- February 20
- In Molokai, Hawaii, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. This earthquake causes severe damage on the islands of Lanai, Molokai, and Maui, and minor damage on Hawaii and Oahu. [53]
1872
- January 28
- In Samaxi (Shemakha), Azerbaijan (Azerbaydzhan, Russia), a magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs. 188 killed. Samaxi almost completely destroyed; about 30,000 people left homeless. [53]
- March 26
- In Owens Valley, California, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurs. [1] [53]
- April 24
- Volcano Vesuvius erupts. [1]
- December 15
- Near Lake Chelan, Washington, USA, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. [53]
1875
- May 16
- Earthquake in Venezuela and Colombia kills 16,000. [1]
- November 2
- In Northern Georgia, USA, a magnitude 4.3 earthquake occurs. [53]
1877
- May 10
- In Chile, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs, producing a 24-metre tsunami that causes extensive damage along the Peru-Chile coast. The tsunami is observed at all the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, and causes fatalities in Hawaii and Japan. [53]
- November 15
- In Eastern Nebraska, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurs. [53]
1879
- January 13
- In Saint Augustine, Florida, USA, a large magnitude earthquake occurs. Felt from Daytona Beach to Savannah, Georgia. [53]
1880
- February 22
- In Yokohama, Japan, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurs. [53]
1881
- September 11
- Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland. [1]
1882
- October 22
- In Southeast Oklahoma, USA, a magnitude 4.9 earthquake occurs. [53]
- November 7
- Near Denver, Colorado, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurs. [53]
1883
- May 20
- Krakatoa volcano begins erupting. [5]
- July 28
- In Ischia, Italy, volcano Epomeo erupts, causing a magnitude 5.6 earthquake. The thermal resort of Casamicciola is devastated, over 2,000 people killed, over 1,200 houses destroyed. [1] [53]
- August 26
- Krakatoa erupts with increasingly large explosions; kills 36,000. [1] [5]
- August 27
- Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons. [1]
- August 29
- Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hours after the explosion. [1]
1884
- August 10
- In New York City, New York, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurs. The total felt area is estimated at 181,000 square kilometres. [53]
1886
- July 10
- Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink and white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand). [1]
- August 31
- First major earthquake (7.3) recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, South Carolina. [1] [53]
1887
- February 23
- French/Italian Riviera struck by earthquake; 2,000 die. [1]
- May 3
- In Sonora, Mexico, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake occurs. [53]
- June 8
- In Almaty (Vernyy), Kazakhstan (Turkestan, Russia), a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs. Almaty destroyed; many fissures, landslides and mudslides observed. [53]
1888
- July 15
- Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for first time in 1,000 years. [1]
- September 1
- In North Canterbury, New Zealand, a magnitude 7.0-7.3 earthquake occurs. [53]
1889
- April 18
- In Potsdam, Germany, Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz makes the first known recordings of a distant earthquake, taken place in Tokyo, Japan, an hour earlier. [53]
1891
- October 28
- In Mino-Owari, Japan, an approximate magnitude 8 earthquake occurs. Over 7,000 deaths. The earthquake caused damage over a 4200 square mile area. 130,000 houses were destroyed. [1] [53]
1892
- February 24
- In Imperial Valley, California, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs. At the old Carrizo station in San Diego County, all adobe buildings are destroyed. [53]
1895
- October 31
- In Charleston, Missouri, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurs. [53]
1896
- June 15
- Off Sanriku, Japan, a magnitude 8.5 earthquake occurs. 28,000 people are killed and 170 miles of coastline are destroyed by the resulting 25-metre (80-foot) tsunami. In Hawaii, wharves are demolished. In California, a 9.5-foot wave is observed. [1] [53]
1897
- May 31
- In Giles County, Virginia, USA, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake occurs. [53]
- June 12
- In Assam, India, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake occurs. Causes complete devastation of over 9,000 square miles and is felt over 1.75 million square miles, resulting in over 1500 deaths. [1] [53]
1898
- June 29
- In Near Islands, Alaska, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurs. [53]
1899
- April 16
- West of Eureka, California, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. [53]
- July 14
- In Cook Inlet, Alaska, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs. [53]
- September 4
- Near Cape Yakataga, Alaska, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurs. [53]
- September 10
- In Yakutat Bay, Alaska, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs. [1] [53]
- September 20
- In Menderes Valley, Turkey (Ottoman Empire), a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. 1,100 deaths. Severe damage to buildings, bridges, railroad and telegraph lines; many landslides. [53]
- September 23
- In Cape Yakataga, Alaska, a magnitude 6.9 - 7.0 earthquake occurs. [53]
- December 25
- In Hemet-San Jacinto, California, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs. [53]
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