--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1840 to 1841. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 2 number: 14 published: 1841-05-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Earthquake,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 14 (May 15, 1841): 422." printed_title: Earthquake. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-05-15_2_14 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n14.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-05-15_2_14 start_page: 422 end_page: 422 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-05-15_2_14 publication_year: 1841 --- # Earthquake The Courier de Lyon of the 13th ult. publishes a letter from Italy of the 4th, stating that the city of Reggio, in Calabria, was nearly destroyed by an earthquake, Feb. 22d. The shocks were fifteen in number; most of the houses were thrown down, and the rest were so much damaged as to be altogether uninhabitable; the palace of the governer, [governor] the tribunal, the prison, the barracks of St. Augustine, the cathedral, five other churches, and various other public buildings, were entirely destroyed. The inhabitants had sought refuge partly at Messina and partly at Naples.