Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IV, Number 12, 23 March 1865 — The Earthquake. [ARTICLE]

The Earthquake.

A severe earthquake was felt about 1 o'eloek A. M., on the 3d inst. round the whole island of Hawnii and on Oahu, and very probably-on the intervening islands, — though as yet we have not heard froin them we hope to hear whether it was experienced on the island of Kauai. It was one of the most severe earthquakes experienced during this century. It seems to have beei><nost severe in Eastern Kau at Keaiwa, whieh is the point nearest the volc.ano of Kilauea from whieh we have yet received reports. 41 A Kesident" from Waimea Hawaii writes—" The most stirring pieee of news we have had lately, eame to us Friday morning, the 3d inst. 15 minutes before one o'eloek, in the shape of the severest earthquake we have had for many years. Indeed we have not had but one equal to it I think in 27 years. There were twovery distinct shocks, the last, as usual,.much more severe than the first.- The motion was lateral, but such was the confusion of tliought on being thus summari!y roused from sleep, th«t I could not possibly say from what point of the compass it eame. Th er e was no ru ribling perceptable. As far as 1 haveheard, .!l the sleepers in our quiet plaee, were made sensible that if our earth is stable, our little island is not immoveable." Kev. J. D. Paris writes from Kona, Hawaii;—" We have had the most terr ible earthquake 1 ever experienced. It occurred on Thursday night. about half past 12 o'eloek. The stone walls were thrown down, all over the Konas, and our house, whieh is a very strong frame, \vas shaken and shivered, as though it were the slightest fabric. 44 He looketh upon the earth and it tremb!eth. He toucheth the hills and they smoke. Rev. O. H. Gulick writes from Waiohinu of Kau ; —" At 1 A. M. Mar. 3d. we had the heaviest earthquake known in modern times in Kau. It woke all hands in Waiohinu.'' The most interesting details howevd are from Keaiwa, Kau. Our correspondetit writes :—" We were waked at one o'eloek out of sleep by the most severe earthquake we ever felt. I think it continued for more than a minute. , Shock after shock shook the house as if it would tare it from the foundation. Windows and doors rattled, bottles fell, and there seemed to be great convulsions and noises in the earth right umler our house. After the hard shocks, it passed olt gradually, as we were dressing we heard a report as if something hadcorae bounding up against the s!Be of the monutain, from the inside, then it eame rumbling and rumbling down, till it reached us as another shock. We feli as many as ūve more slight shocks before morning. At the volcano ,there did not seem to be mueh more light than we often see." Jacob is an active old man nearly 80 years of age, who every other week carries the mnil perhaps9o milesto Hilo from Waiohinu, and back again. He is the principal luna in the Keaiwa church. Long may he live to do good and read the Kuokoa. Our Keaiwa correspondent says tnat " Jacob and another man were up when *the earthquake eame on, re;,ding the Kuo'oa. He says there was first a lund report, and they thought it was thunder, then eame the

slight shocks of the earthquake, whieh increased in severity everyshock, for a minute or so, then it passed off as it eame, with s!ight shocks. He thinks it \vas three or four minutes in duration. He bad never before experienced as severe aifearthquake as this. There have been many times when they have been very frequent, but not«evere like this. Before one of the lava flows on the pahoehoe beiow us he said they had slight >hocks repeated at short intervals through the whole day, and at night they saw the lava flow." We trust our friends on the island of Hawaii will keep us fully informed of all that occurs there regarding earthquakes and voleanie action, • especially those who live at the Volcano. It is possible that an eruption may be working its way to the surface.