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A. D. 



713. ? 



OLDHAM : CATALOGUE OP INDIAN EARTHQUAKES. 



July 9th. Antioch, Sybia. — An earthquake, which lasted 40 days at 

 Antioch, is recorded by Al Macin in the year of the 

 Hijra 94. This year extended from 7th October 712, 

 A. D., to 25th September 713, A. D. This is very pro- 

 bably the same disturbance which is quoted in Brit. Ass. 

 Catal., 1852, page 11, ou the authority of Theophanes and 

 Anastasius, as occurring on the 28th February 713 in 

 Syria.— (Al Macin, edit, cit., page 86). 



738. January 16th. — The date of this is stated by Al Macin (page 99, Erpenius' edition, 

 Leyden, 1625) to have been the 21st day of Tuba in the year 

 120, A. H. This is a mixture of Mahomedan and Christ- 

 ian eras. Tbe month of Tuba, in the " era of the Martyrs," 

 lasts annually from the 27th December to the 26th Janu- 

 ary; and as the year 120, A. H., extended from the 29th 

 December, A. D. 737, to 17th December, 738, the earth- 

 quake occurred (21st of Tuba) on the 16th of January 

 738, A. D. Al Macin's account is : 'In the night a great 

 earthquake destroyed many cities, the inhabitants perish- 

 ing in the ruins, and many ships were sunk at sea. They 

 say also that this earthquake was universal over all regions- 

 to the extreme east, and that 600 cities in the east were 

 destroyed in that night, and men and animals innumer- 

 able.' — (Al Macin, edit, cit., page 99.) 



856. December. — 'In the same year (A,H. 242), in the month Sha'ban, terrible- 

 earthquakes happened in Corinth and its towns, so that 

 45,000 people perished under the ruins.' * * * In Persia, alsc 

 Khorasan and Syria, ' earthquakes occurred this year, and 

 unusual sounds, and in Alamana, with great destruction,' 

 — (Al Macin, edit, cit., page 189). The year 242 of Hijra 

 was from 10th May 856 to 29th April 857. The first day 

 of the month Sha'ban was the 28th day of the year ; hence 

 counting 208 days from the 10th of May 856, we find 

 that this earthquake happened between the 3rd day of 

 December 856 and the 1st of January 857, A. D. Quoted 

 in Mallet's Catalogue, but not at Corinth, as Al Macin 

 states. 

 Abul Paraj (Pocock's translation, Oxonise, 1663) describes this- 

 same earthquake, and attributes to it (page 170) the upturn- 

 ing of the mountain Akrao (Akraios), near Laodicea ; 

 whereas Al Macin (p. 190) says this occurred in 245, 

 A. H. = 859, A. D. 

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