A violent earthquake was felt in Northern Italy, and especially
in the Province of Verona, during the early morning of Sunday last. Many houses fell in, and a great many persons were injured. It is certain that almost all serious earthquake shocks are felt in the immediate neighbourhood of the sea, which is perhaps one reason why Africa, which is the least indented by the sea of all the continents, has no very great earthquake regions. The coasts of the Mediterranean have, indeed, been always specially liable to earthquake shooks, from the earliest ages to our own; indeed, excepting the great archipelago in which Java and Sumatra are situated, and a portion of the Andes region in Central and South America, there is hardly any region of the earth which has suffered so much from earthquakes as the Mediterranean. Apparently it is a section where the crust of the earth is thinnest, and most liable to be cracked by disturbing forces from below.
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