For the events discussed in the text, we present tabulated summaries of macroseismic effects at 3831 locations for the 25 April 2015 Gorkha earthquake (Table S1), at 26 locations for the sunset event on 26 August 1833 (Table S2), at 22 locations for the event at ~23:35 local time on 26 August 1833 (Table S3), and 105 locations for the event at ~23:56 local time on 26 August 1833 (Table S4). All four tables are also accompanied by ASCII (text) files consisting of latitude, longitude, the 1998 European Macroseismic Scale (EMS-98) intensity, and location name. Table S5 contains additional source information for Table S1.
Table S1. Listing of 3831 locations with EMS-98 intensity assignments for the 25 April 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake. Localities within large cities follow the format “city name = locality” (e.g., “Kathmandu = Tundikhel”). Country/state abbreviations: AP, Andhra Pradesh; AR, Arunachal Pradesh; AS, Assam; BD, Bangladesh; BH, Bihar; BT, Bhutan; CG, Chhattisgarh; CN, China; DL, Delhi; GJ, Gujarat; HP, Himachal Pradesh; HR, Haryana; JH, Jharkhand; JK, Jammu and Kashmir; KL, Kerala; KN, Karnataka; MG, Meghalaya; MH, Maharashtra; MN, Manipur; MP, Madhya Pradesh; MY, Myanmar; MZ, Mizoram; NG, Nagaland; NP, Nepal; OD, Odisha; PK, Pakistan; PN, Punjab (India); RJ, Rajasthan; SK, Sikkim; TN, Tamil Nadu; TR, Tripura; TS, Telangana; UK, Uttarakhand; UP, Uttar Pradesh; WB, West Bengal. Damage grades and vulnerability classes are from Grünthal et al. (1998). See Table S5 for additional source information.
Download: Table_S1_ASCII [Zip Archive of ASCII Text; ~40 KB]. This downloadable ASCII table contains latitude, longitude, and EMS-98 intensities from the HTML version of Table S1. (It does not contain detailed descriptions or source material.)
Table S2. Listing of 26 locations with descriptions, EMS-98 intensities, and sources for the event at sunset on 26 August 1833. Country abbreviations: BD, Bangladesh; CN, China; IN, India; and NP, Nepal. Modern names are in parentheses. All newspaper sources are from Bilham (1995), with the exception of the Calcutta Courier (Kolkata, India).
Download: Table_S2_ASCII [Zip Archive of ASCII Text; ~735 B]. This downloadable ASCII table contains latitude, longitude, and EMS-98 intensities from the HTML version of Table S2. (It does not contain detailed descriptions or source material.)
Table S3. Listing of 22 locations with descriptions, EMS-98 intensities, and sources for the event at ~23:35 local time on 26 August 1833. Country abbreviations: BD, Bangladesh; IN, India; and NP, Nepal. Modern names are in parentheses. All newspaper sources are from Bilham (1995) with the exception of the Calcutta Courier (Kolkata, India).
Download: Table_S3_ASCII [Zip Archive of ASCII Text; ~670 B]. This downloadable ASCII table contains latitude, longitude, and EMS-98 intensities from the HTML version of Table S3. (It does not contain detailed descriptions or source material.)
Table S4. Listing of 105 locations with descriptions, EMS-98 intensities, and sources for the event at ~23:55 local time on 26 August 1833. Country abbreviations: BD, Bangladesh; CN, China; IN, India; and NP, Nepal. Modern names are in parentheses. Localities within large cities follow the format “city name = locality” (e.g., “Kathmandu = Tundikhel”). All newspaper sources are from Bilham (1995), with the exception of the Calcutta Courier (Kolkata, India).
Download: Table_S4_ASCII [Zip Archive of ASCII Text; ~2 KB]. This downloadable ASCII table contains latitude, longitude, and EMS-98 intensities from the HTML version of Table S4. (It does not contain detailed descriptions or source material.)
Table S5. Newspaper publisher locations for Table S1.
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