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Cook, Arthur B.
Zeus: a study in ancient religion (Band 3,1): Zeus god of the dark sky (earthquake, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorits): Text and notes — Cambridge, 1940

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CHAPTER II [continued)

ZEUS AS GOD OF THE WEATHER.
§ 5. Zeus and the Earthquakes.

Greece is a land of many earthquakes. Reckoning great with
small, Count de Montessus de Ballore1, our foremost authority in
seismic geography2, computes a yearly average of at least 275.
C. Davison3 in a recent monograph states that 3187 were recorded
during the six years 1893—1898, and adds that, for every shock felt
in Great Britain, 50 are observed in Japan and no less than 158
in Greece4. Similarly J. Partsch5, after consideration of Julius
Schmidt's6 earthquake-catalogue for 1859—1878, concludes 'that

1 F. de Montessus de Ballore Les tremblements de terre: Giographie sHsmologique
Paris 1906 p. 264.

2 See C. Davison The Founders of Seismology Cambridge 1927 pp. 160—176.

3 c. Davison A Manual of Seismology Cambridge 1921 p- 161.

4 F. de Montessus de Ballore ' Introduction a un essai de description sismique du
globe et mesure de la sismicite' in the Beilrdge zur Geophysik Leipzig 1900 iv. 357
gives the following statistics for the various divisions of Greece (repeated by C. E. Dutton
Earthquakes in the light of the new Seismology London 1904 p. 296):

Earth-

Localities Epicentres quakes Periods ok Observation

Thessaly I3 76 1863 1867-1868 1895-1897

EuboiaandN.Sporades 23 1228 (Euboia) 1857-1878 1895-1897

Attike, Parnassos, and

Lokris 43 1979 1858-1878 1895-1897

Akarnania ,7 138 1895-1897

Ionian Isles 4, 5700 1825-1868 1875 1892-1893 i89j-i»97

Achaia M 308 1860-1876 1882-1883 1887-1888 1895-1

Korinthia and Argolis 28 311 1858-1878 1886-1888 1895-1897

Lakonike „ 54 1858-1862 1867 1876-1877 1895-1897

Messene », 93 1895-1897

Arkadia 2Q 75 1895-1897

c«te g iCO 1858-1888

Kyklades ,4 ,4i ,860-1863 1867-1874 1895-1897

General or ill-defined 9 32
General or ill-defined

(eastern) 9 71

Totals 280 10306
6 C. Neumann-J. Partsch Physikalische Geographic von Griccfunland «ut besonae
Riicksicht aufdas Alterthum Breslau 1885 p. 320. . . .. , ,6g_-36o

s J. F. Julius Schmidt Studien iiber Vulkane undErdbeben Leipzig 1881

c. ill.
 
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