Remarks on the earthquake in the state of Colima, Mexico, January 19, 1900

✍ Scribed by Caspar Wistar Haines

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1901
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 813 KB
• Volume: 152
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(01)90101-2

✦ Synopsis

On the night of the I9th of January, I9OO, at I 1.5o P.M., local time, a very severe earthquake was felt in Mexico over a comparatively narrow zone, extending, approximately, along the nineteenth parallel of latitude and reaching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.

It greatest force and longest duration were felt at Colima, on the Pacific Coast, where it lasted seventy five seconds. The duration and intensity diminished towards Veracruz, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, where it was scareely perceptible, and where it seemed to disappear into the waters of the Gulf, as it had appeared from those of the Pacific Ocean. VOL. CLII. No. 91o.