--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1841 to 1842. 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: 3 number: 12 published: 1842-04-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Destructive Earthquakes in Central America,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 12 (April 15, 1842): 758." printed_title: DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKES IN CENTRAL AMERICA source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-04-15_3_12 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n12.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_1842-04-15_3_12 start_page: 758 end_page: 758 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 1842 (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_1842-04-15_3_12 publication_year: 1842 --- # Destructive Earthquakes in Central America From the Liverpool Albion, Dec. 13th By a letter received from Central America by the last Jamaca [Jamaica] packet, it appears that the entire city of Cartago, containing a population of 10,000 persons, was destroyed by an earthquake early in the morning of September 2nd, though, as nearly all the inhabitants had previously risen, but few (not more than forty or fifty persons) were killed or wounded. This earthquake occurred without previous warning, and was connected with an eruption of the well known volcano about three leagues distant. A smart shock of the same earthquake was at the same time felt in the town of San Jose, not far distant, at which place the earth trembled for several days subsequent, but not much damage done there.