phenomenon

Earthquake

Nature

A named shaking of the ground from sudden slip or rupture. Not tsunami as the sea wave alone, and not landslide as slope failure alone.

Also known as Quake · Tremor

Roman religion

  • Earthquake appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats earthquakes among Book 2 tremblings of the ground and related marvels. A named earthquake in that encyclopedia, not volcano as the fire-mountain and not a omen-only dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Islam

  • Earthquake appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an names the earthquake in sura 99 (al-Zalzala) when the earth is shaken and casts out her burdens. Islamic earthquake speech in that revelation, not a geology dump alone and not last-judgment as the whole tribunal word.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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  • Earthquake appears in Astrology.

    Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos treats earthquakes among mundane outcomes read from eclipse and configuration speech. A named earthquake in that handbook, not a geology textbook and not a myth-combat dump.

    from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE

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sources

  • Natural History · Pliny the Elder

    Pliny, Naturalis Historia.

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).

  • Tetrabiblos · Claudius Ptolemy

    Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos.