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IX. Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes in the Russian Empire. 

 By Mushketoff and Orloff. 1 



Abstracted by Mr. W. A. Taylor. 



In the original catalogue we find 2,574 entries. From these the 

 following have been abstracted as representing earthquakes of sufficient 

 intensity to have caused destruction. 



In many instances the dates for earthquakes which occurred in 

 Chinese territory do not agree with those given by Omori, Hirota, and 

 Parker. An alternative date is marked O. For registers prepared by 

 these three writers see vol. xxix. of the Eeports of the Imperial Earth- 

 quake Investigation Committee of Japan in Chinese idiographs. Eeports 

 of the British Association, 1908, p. 82, and 1909, p. 62. For Chinese 

 lists we have also the ' Catalogue General des Tremblements de Terre,' 

 &c, presented to the Academie des Sciences by Ed. Biot in 1839, and 

 the recent work by the late Le B. P. Pierre Hoang (see ' Varietes 

 Sinologiques,' No. 28, published by the Mission Catholique, Shanghai, 

 1909). Dates from the latter are marked H. In many instances the 

 Chinese dates may not refer to the time of an earthquake, but to tEo 

 time at which it was notified in Pekin or some other city. 



I = Earthquakes which have produced slight damage. 

 II = Earthquakes which have destroyed a few buildings. 

 111 = Earthquakes accompanied by widespread destruction. 



W.B. refers to dates according to the tables of W. Bramsen, ' Trans. 

 Asiatic Society of Japan,' vol. xxxvii. Names of Provinces are in 

 parentheses. Places of greatest destruction are in italics. 



r A.D. 



341 Armenia. I 



715 Isnik-Membeji in Armenia, Constantinople. Ill 



775 Mozan and Daralagoz, Siyunik Prov. Ill 



803 Khogot Mountains. II 



869 Town of Dvin (Tovin) ? Ill 



893 Town of Dvin. Ill 



894 Environs of Erivan. Ill 



989 Greece, Thrace, Byzantine Province, Constantinople. II 



995 Armenia, Towns of Ghapajar, Alhakh and Amit. Ill 



1000 Mar. 29. Throughout the known world. Ill 



1045 Erzingan, Ami and Ekeghiaz Prov. Ill 



1091 Edessa and Anticch. Ill 



1111 Van in Armenia. II 



1114 Mar. 12. Samosata, Ghizn-Mansur, Khesun, Marash, Kaben and Sis. Ill 



1124 Khorassan. Ill 



1131 Ani in Armenia. II 



1139 Ganja (Elisavetpol), Kapassi-dagh. Ill 



1143 April Tangut country in Tibet. II 



1156 Oct. 26. Syria, between Aleppo and Malatieh. Ill 

 for 14 months. 



1168 Erzingan. Ill 



1170 Kief. Ill 



1 Memoirs of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, vol. xsvi., St. Petersburg, 

 1893. 



