The whole country between Santa Fe and Panama destroyed by earthquake, including Cusco and Quito; 40,000 people buried in moments.
“God often bestows temporal prosperities on the wicked, to show how lightly he esteems what the world is so dazzled with; but crosses he reserves for his own, whom he would humble under his Almighty hand, and make them the objects of his delight.”
–Fenelon