656 CATALOGUE OF DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKES 



British Association Report for 1910. Many of the disturbances 

 extended into or originated in Chinese Territory. 



Chinese Records. — These have been obtained from several 

 sources. 



1. A catalogue by Ed. Biot, published in the " Annales de 

 Chimie et de Physique." Tome II, 1841, p. 372. It contains 

 480 references. 



2. A translation made by Mr. Shinobu Hirota of a list 

 of Chinese earthquakes by Professor Omori, published in 

 Chinese idiographs in the Proceedings of the Earthquake 

 Investigation Committee of Japan, vol. XXIX, published in 

 Tokio. In the British Association Report for 1908 an 

 abstract of this catalogue and that of Biot has been given 

 by Mr. Hirota. 



3. A list abstracted and translated by Professor E. H. 

 Parker from the Tung-Hwa-Lu. This work consists of about 

 100 vols., to read and index which occupied Professor Parker four 

 years. The earthquake list comprises the period 1643-1872. 

 The English translation is to be found in the British Association 

 Report, 1909. 



4. An abstract also made by S. Hirota from a " Catalogue 

 des Tremblements de Terre, Signales en Chine," par le R. P. 

 Pierre Hoang, published by La Mission Catholique in Shanghai, 

 1909. This is a work of 298 pp. The first entry is 1767 B.C. 

 and the last 1896 A.D. In it the same earthquake is repeatedly 

 entered at the different places at which it was noted. For 

 example, an earthquake which took place on July 24 and 25, 

 1668, is notified at 203 places. These are found in different parts 

 of the volume. 



The information derived from these different sources, 

 together with those obtained from the Russian catalogue, are by 

 no means always in agreement. It is often for example difficult 

 to decide whether the date for an earthquake refers to its time 

 of occurrence Or to the time when it was notified at some 

 Imperial City. For this reason some of the dates given in the 

 present catalogue are not strictly in accordance with those 

 published in the British Association Report. 



Formosan Records. — Records relating to Formosa have been 

 translated and abstracted by Mr. S. Hirota from a list of 

 Formosan earthquakes published in idiographs by Mr. Kondo 

 and Professor Ogawa (see Publications of the Earthquake 

 Investigation Committee of Japan, vol. LIV). 



Japanese Records. — The entries from Japan have been 

 obtained from the following sources: — 



1. From a catalogue by Professors Sekya and Omori, 

 Proceedings of the Earthquake Investigation Committee of 

 Japan, vol. XLVI. This, which is in Japanese, was abstracted by 

 Mr. Hirota. 



2. A Catalogue by Professor J. Milne published in the 

 Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan, vol. III. 



