This book provides brief but detailed accounts of individual, important earthquakes that have occurred during the last half century. The earthquake's importance has been judged by the scientific value of the results achieved by the study of the shocks. Includes accounts of The Neapolitan Earthquake of December 16th, 1857, The Andalusian Earthquake of December 25th 1884, The Riviera Earthquake of February 23rd, 1887, the Indian Earthquake of June 12th, 1897 among others.