Mount Tai earthquake explained

Pre-1900:	yes
Local-Date:	1831 or 1731, BCE
Map:	Mount Tai dot.png

The Mount Tai earthquake (Chinese: 泰山震) was the first recorded earthquake in history. It occurred at Mount Tai, in present-day Shandong province, China, during the seventh year of the reign of King Fa of the Xia dynasty, which places its occurrence at some point between circa 2205 and 1600 BCE.^[1] The earthquake was mentioned briefly in the Bamboo Annals. The event has tentatively been dated to 1831^[2] or 1740 BCE.^[3]

See also

• Mandate of Heaven

Notes and References

1. Book: 王恆偉 . 2005 . 中國歷史講堂 #1 遠古至春秋 . 中華書局 . 978-962-8885-24-4 . 26.
2. Book: 吳階平, 喻滄, 季羨林 . 2002 . 世紀中國學術大典: 測繪學, 大氣科學, 固體地球物理學, 應用地球物理學, 海洋科學 . 福建教育出版社 . 978-7-5334-3446-5 . 41.
3. Book: Melton, J. Gordon. Faiths Across Time: 5,000 Years of Religious History. 2014. ABC-CLIO. 978-1-61069-026-3. 45.