This article has two goals. First, to provide an overview of eighteenthcentury Philippine newsletters, or relaciones de sucesos, in order to categorise them by subject-matter. Accounts dealing with natural disasters stand out among these. Second, two extremely rare Philippine imprints are identified and discussed: the first one, printed on Franciscan presses, deals with the consequences of the January 1743 earthquake in the Tayabas area, while the second, printed in Mexico in 1756, describes the continuous eruptions of the Taal volcano during the second half of 1754. Both newsletters are reproduced here with notes and an analytical introduction.