CATALOGUE. 4-9 



Catalogue of Earthquakes, chiefly Eastern, although not Indian, which appear to 

 have escaped notice in the preparation of published lists. 



In addition to the earthquakes noticed in the fullest catalogue yet 

 published (Mallet's British Association Reports, 1852, 1853, 1854), I 

 have during my present researches met with the following, which it may 

 be desirable to place on record here : — 



A. D. 



343. Abul Faraj (ed. cit., page 87) says : la the sixth, year of the 



Emperors Constantine, Constantius, and Constans, were 

 great tremors at Antioch and many earthquakes, nor did 

 the earth cease to tremble for a whole year, hut nevertheless 

 so that nothing perished. 

 375. July 21st. — In the reign of Valentinian, a great fall like small stones hap- 

 pened at Constantinople, and tremblings and earthquakes 

 and gaps in the ground in many places : also the city of 

 Nicia was engulphed (absorptus est). — Abul Faraj, I. c, 

 page 89) ; Gibbon, iii, 136. 

 441 . In the twentieth year of the reign of Theodosius, junior, a great 



earthquake at Constantinople, such that all the people fled 

 outside the city, and many places fell. — Abul Faraj, 

 I. c, page 91) ; also noticed in Gibbons Boman Empire, 

 iii, p. 560. 

 457 ? In the year Leo Caesar came to the throne, which was the 



879th (?) year of Alexander, a great earthquake in the 

 city of Antioch ; many places sank in the earth. Same 

 year a great famine in the east, and hosts of locusts. — 

 Abul Faraj, (I. c, page 92). 

 551. July 9th. — In second year of the reign of Justinian the 3rd, a flame of fire, 

 appeared in the sky near the arctic pole which remained 

 the whole year, and darkness covered the earth from the 

 ninth hour of the day till night, such that no one could 

 see anything, and something like dust and ashes fell from 

 the heavens. And in the third year of his reign the 

 rains failed and winter was like summer, and a great 

 earthquake occurred and serious pestilence. — Abul Faraj, 

 I. c, page 95) ; also Gibbon, iv, 549. 

 634-5. Palestine. — Al Macin (Erpenius, edit., page 22,) records an 



earthquake in Palestine in the year 13 A. H., which was 

 from March 7th, 634, A. D., to February 24th, 635. 



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