| Record Number | Latitude* | Longitude | EMS Intensity† | Quality | Location‡ | Country§ | Description | Source‖ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25.434 | 81.847 | 4.0 | 0 | Allahabad | IN | Smart; person was woken up by a tremulous motion | India Gazette (1833/09/24) |
| 2 | 25.555 | 84.659 | 4.0 | 1 | Arrah | IN | Severe shock; lasted 10 s | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/05) |
| 3 | 25.320 | 82.971 | 4.0 | 0 | Benaras (Varanasi) | IN | Several frightened | India Gazette (1833/09/04) |
| 4 | 25.565 | 83.977 | 4.0 | 1 | Buxar | IN | Very smart | India Gazette (1833/09/09) |
| 5 | 22.582 | 88.353 | 3.0 | 0 | Calcutta (Kolkata) | IN | Slight; short duration; astronomical clock stopped | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/08/28) |
| 6 | 22.865 | 88.362 | F | 0 | Chandernagore (Chandannagar) | IN | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/08/29) |
| 7 | 25.778 | 84.749 | 4.0 | 0 | Chuprah (Chhapra) | IN | Person woken up by a violent rocking of the house and went outdoors | India Gazette (1833/09/06) |
| 8 | 23.858 | 89.240 | F | 0 | Comercolly (Kumarkhali) | BD | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects | India Gazette (1833/09/03) |
| 9 | 25.583 | 83.577 | 3.0 | 1 | Gazeepore (Ghazipur) | IN | Slighter in comparison to the shock at midnight | Calcutta Courier (1833/09/04) |
| 10 | 26.758 | 83.374 | 4.0 | 0 | Goruckpore (Gorakhpur) | IN | Severe shock lasting 2 min; every European resident woken up and ran outdoors in panic | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/10/26) |
| 11 | 24.000 | 85.369 | 4.0 | 4 | Hazaribagh | IN | Punkah swung and door rattled | Mofussil Akhbar (1833/09/21) |
| 12 | 27.723 | 85.316 | 5.0 | 1 | Kathmandu | NP | Felt at the British Residency at Lainchaur; more violent than the event at sunset; many frightened and ran outdoors; ground moved in a long and even swell for about 30-40 s | India Gazette (1833/09/09) |
| 13 | 26.848 | 80.944 | 3.0 | 1 | Lucknow | IN | Slight shock preceded the midnight event | Calcutta Courier (1833/09/04) |
| 14 | 25.380 | 86.466 | 4.0 | 1 | Monghyr (Munger) | IN | Felt for at least a minute; several people frightened and ran outdoors; person woken up by the shock | Calcutta Courier (1833/09/06) |
| 15 | 26.736 | 85.327 | 4.0 | 2 | Mullye | IN | Very severe shock; smart | India Gazette (1833/09/06); Calcutta Courier (1833/09/06) |
| 16 | 24.164 | 88.272 | 4.5 | 3 | Murshidabad district | IN | House shaken; birds awakened; hanging lamps shaken | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/06) |
| 17 | 26.819 | 84.604 | 5.0 | 3 | North Tirhoot | IN | Felt for a minute; walls of bungalow rent in many places; doors and wall shades agitated; walls of other buildings cracked; water splashed out of a reservoir | India Gazette (1833/09/26) |
| 18 | 25.610 | 85.144 | 4.0 | 0 | Patna | IN | Person woken up by a “horrid rattling” and shocks from east to west; servants ran into the room in great consternation | India Gazette (1833/09/09) |
| 19 | 25.783 | 87.466 | 4.0 | 1 | Purneah (Purnea) | IN | Severe | India Gazette (1833/09/06) |
| 20 | 25.064 | 84.017 | 4.0 | 0 | Rohtas Hills | IN | A few woken up; shock did not last more than a minute | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/06) |
| 21 | 25.734 | 89.275 | 4.0 | 0 | Rungpur (Rangpur) | BD | Very strong; lasted more than 30 s | India Gazette (1833/09/03) |
| 22 | 26.120 | 85.365 | 4.0 | 2 | Tirhoot (Tirhut) | IN | Person woken by a violent shaking of his bed and went outdoors quickly | 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; 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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