Geology / Earthquake

252BC Feb. 19

Event #2719: Earthquake followed by hailstorm in Babylon

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/2719

Geographical sites:

  • Babylon (click here to focus in map) (see also Pleiades #727082)
    Pleiades_icon Babylon settlement, fort Geocontext: Fostat, Cairo
    Description: An ancient fortified city of the Delta of Egypt, located at Babylon in the area today known as Coptic Cairo.

Citations:

Text #3790

Sachs & Hunger. Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia
[p. 41]

RM 718 + 723 + BM 32840 + 34130

‘Rev.
11’ – The 19th1, around noon, the earth quaked.
13’ – The 24th, clouds crossed the sky, lightning, much thunder, thick rain, much PISAN DIB2, it hailed.

  1. February-March ↩

  2. A term linked to rain. ↩

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