Electronic Supplement to
Ground Motions from the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, Earthquake Constrained by a Detailed Assessment of Macroseismic Data

by Stacey S. Martin, Susan E. Hough, and Charleen Hung

Table S2. Listing of 26 Locations with Descriptions, EMS-98 Intensities, and Sources for the Event at Sunset on 26 August 1833

Record Number Latitude* Longitude EMS Intensity Quality Location Country§ Description Source
1 25.434 81.847 3.0 1 Allahabad IN Not severe India Gazette (1833/09/24)
2 27.632 85.516 4.0 1 Baneppa NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
3 NA NA 4.0 3 Bissoulea NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
4 27.559 85.138 4.0 1 Chisagarhy (Chisapani/Chisapani Garhi) NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
5 27.650 85.169 4.0 1 Chitlong (Chitlang) NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
6 25.778 84.749 3.0 0 Chuprah (Chhapra) IN Slightly felt India Gazette (1833/09/06)
7 27.617 85.551 4.0 1 Dulkele (Dhulikhel) NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
8 27.722 85.218 4.0 2 Duny Byas Hills (Dhunibesi) NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
9 27.414 85.034 4.0 1 Etounda (Hetuada) NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
10 26.758 83.374 3.0 0 Goruckpore (Gorakhpur) IN Slight; felt at ~19:00 local time Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/06)
11 24.000 85.369 1.0 1 Hazaribagh IN Not felt Mofussil Akhbar (1833/09/21)
12 27.723 85.316 5.0 1 Kathmandu NP Felt at the British Residency at Lainchaur; severe shock; doors, jhilmils, chairs, tables moved; rumbling noise like a cannon driving over a drawbridge heard; trees and shrubs moved; house observed moving in unison with trees India Gazette (1833/09/09)
13 28.540 85.290 F 2 Kyirong CN Felt Chen (1982)
14 26.848 80.944 3.0 1 Lucknow IN Slighter than the events at 23:00 and 23:55 local time Calcutta Courier (1833/09/04)
15 25.380 86.466 4.0 0 Monghyr (Munger) IN Felt for 20-s; room, chairs shaken; motion like that of the engine of a steamboat; people ran outside Calcutta Courier (1833/09/06)
16 26.736 85.327 2.0 2 Mullye IN Very slight India Gazette (1833/09/06)
17 24.164 88.272 3.0 2 Murshidabad district IN Slight Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/06)
18 27.912 85.162 4.0 1 Nayakot (Nuwakot) NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
19 26.819 84.604 4.0 2 North Tirhoot NP Severe shock; east to west India Gazette (1833/09/09)
20 27.583 85.517 4.0 1 Panouti (Panauti) NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
21 25.610 85.144 3.0 0 Patna IN Distinctly felt India Gazette (1833/09/09)
22 27.570 85.403 4.0 3 Phulam Chock (Phulchowki) NP Smart Campbell (1833a)
23 25.783 87.466 3.0 0 Purneah (Purnea) IN Rather slight India Gazette (1833/09/06)
24 28.083 86.333 F 2 Rongxar CN Felt Chen (1982)
25 25.734 89.275 3.0 1 Rungpur (Rangpur) BD Very short India Gazette (1833/09/03)
26 26.120 85.365 3.0 2 Tirhoot (Tirhut) IN Slight India Gazette (1833/09/18)

* NA, geographic coordinates unknown.

† F, felt but no additional information available to assess intensity.

‡ Modern names are in parentheses.

§ BD, Bangladesh; CN, China; IN, India; and NP, Nepal.

‖ Newspaper publisher locations: India Gazette, Bengal Hurkaru, and Calcutta Courier in Kolkata, India; Mofussul Akhbar in Delhi, India.

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