| Record Number | Latitude* | Longitude | EMS Intensity† | Quality | Location‡,§ | Country‖ | Description | Source# |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27.175 | 78.008 | 4.0 | 4 | Agra | IN | Several strong shocks were felt lasting a few seconds; time of occurrence not reported | India Gazette (1833/09/12) |
| 2 | 25.434 | 81.847 | 5.0 | 1 | Allahabad | IN | Smart; short, quick vibrations for 2 min; doors, windows rattled; many people went outdoors; energetic seismic seiche generated in the Jamuna (Yamuna) river; tiles fell from roofs | Calcutta Courier (1833/09/03); Parkes (1850) |
| 3 | 25.555 | 84.659 | 6.0 | 1 | Arrah | IN | Several walls fell; some roofs thrown off; doors, windows and furniture thrown into violent agitation; everyone rushed outdoors; began with a slight tremulous motion which gradually increased to the most tremulous undulations; direction appeared to be north to south | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/05) |
| 4 | 27.620 | 85.300 | 7.5 | 1 | Baghmati (Bungamati) | NP | 38% (80 of 206) buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 5 | NA | NA | 6.0 | 1 | Bali | NP | 3 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 6 | 27.632 | 85.516 | 6.5 | 1 | Baneppa (Banepa) | NP | 20 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 7 | 27.601 | 85.355 | 6.5 | 3 | Baragaon (Baragau) | NP | 35 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 8 | 27.691 | 85.388 | 6.5 | 1 | Bareh (Bode) | NP | 20 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 9 | 25.320 | 82.971 | 4.5 | 1 | Benaras (Varanasi) | IN | “More severe violent shock” than the previous one lasting 2 ½ -3 minutes. | India Gazette (1833/09/04) |
| 10 | 25.249 | 86.978 | 4.0 | 4 | Bhagalpore (Bhagalpur) | IN | Person woken up by the shock; standing liquids were disturbed; people went outdoors; shock lasted 8 min | India Gazette (1833/09/03) |
| 11 | 27.672 | 85.426 | 7.5 | 1 | Bhatgaon (Bhaktapur) | NP | 42% (2,000 of ~4700) buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 12 | 26.817 | 87.266 | F | 0 | Bijayapur (Dharan) | NP | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects | Rana (1934) |
| 13 | 27.777 | 85.362 | 6.0 | 1 | Burba Nil Kanth (Budhanilkantha) | NP | 2 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 14 | 25.565 | 83.977 | 5.0 | 1 | Buxar | IN | “Smartest of the two”; people frightened and ran outdoors; wall shades and glasses upset; sleeping horses frightened and birds flew from trees; seismic seiche experienced in the river | India Gazette (1833/09/09) |
| 15 | 22.582 | 88.353 | 4.5 | 1 | Calcutta (Kolkata) | IN | Felt for over 2 min; doors rattled; bed shaken heavily for more than minute followed by a gentler east-west motion; punkahs, walls shades, tables and chairs violently agitated; people frightened and went outdoors; some blew conch shells; birds frightened out of trees | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/08/28) |
| 16 | 22.865 | 88.362 | 5.0 | 1 | Chandernagore (Chandannagar) | IN | Felt for 3 min; violent; attic of a house “thrown down” | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/08/29) |
| 17 | 27.716 | 85.429 | 6.5 | 1 | Changu (Changunarayan) | NP | 20 buildings including a “fine” temple destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 18 | 27.733 | 85.277 | 6.0 | 1 | Changu Narayan (Ichangunarayan) | NP | 2 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 19 | 27.779 | 85.380 | 6.5 | 3 | Chapali | NP | 7 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 20 | 27.591 | 85.326 | 6.5 | 1 | Chappagaon | NP | 35 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 21 | 27.559 | 85.138 | 6.5 | 1 | Chisagarhy (Chisapani/Chisapani Garhi) | NP | Fort “much injured”; large portion of breastwork facing south fell; wall in many other places seriously injured but did not fall | Campbell (1833a) |
| 22 | 27.650 | 85.169 | 6.5 | 1 | Chitlong (Chitlang) | NP | 14 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 23 | 22.365 | 91.800 | F | 0 | Chittagong | BD | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects | Campbell (1833b) |
| 24 | 25.778 | 84.749 | 5.5 | 1 | Chuprah (Chhapra) | IN | Stronger than preceding; dreadful north-south motion and very alarming; everyone rushed outdoors; large pieces of the cornice and much plaster fell from the walls of rooms; several native dwellings destroyed; Court house (Cutchery / Katcheri) badly damaged so that future proceedings were held in a tent. | India Gazette (1833/09/06) |
| 25 | 23.858 | 89.240 | F | 1 | Comercolly (Kumarkhali) | BD | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects | India Gazette (1833/09/03) |
| 26 | 28.593 | 77.158 | 3.0 | 4 | Delhi | IN | Felt for 4½ - 5 min; undulations were rapid and distinct; direction SE-NW (time of occurrence not reported. Possibly from the strongest event) | Delhi Gazette (1833/08/31) |
| 27 | 27.709 | 85.347 | 6.5 | 1 | Deo Patan (Deupatan) | NP | 30 buildings destroyed; Pashupatinath temple “unhurt” | Campbell (1833a) |
| 28 | 27.742 | 85.341 | 6.5 | 1 | Dharampur | NP | 20 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 29 | 27.758 | 85.342 | 6.0 | 1 | Dharmtuli (Dharamtali) | NP | 2 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 30 | 29.264 | 88.880 | 1.0 | 0 | Digarchi (Xigatze) | CN | Not felt | Campbell (1833b) |
| 31 | 29.198 | 80.898 | 3.0 | 1 | Doti | NP | “Felt, but by no means severely” | Campbell (1833b) |
| 32 | 27.617 | 85.551 | 6.5 | 1 | Dukule (Dhulikhel) | NP | 21 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 33 | 27.722 | 85.218 | 6.5 | 3 | Duny Byas Hills (Dhunibesi) | NP | 40 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 34 | 27.367 | 79.633 | 4.5 | 4 | Futtigarh (Fatehgarh) | IN | Very sensibly felt; person woken by the rattling of doors and windows; birds frightened (time of occurrence not reported. Possibly from the strongest event) | India Gazette (1833/10/10) |
| 35 | 25.583 | 83.577 | 4.0 | 0 | Gazeepore (Ghazipur) | IN | Beds shaken waking up soldiers; walls and joints cracking | Calcutta Courier (1833/09/04) |
| 36 | 28.000 | 84.632 | 6.0 | 1 | Gorkha | NP | 2 houses destroyed | Campbell (1833b) |
| 37 | NA | NA | 6.0 | 1 | Gorkha Cantt (Campoo) | NP | 4 houses destroyed; house of the Captain “much injured” | Campbell (1833b) |
| 38 | 26.758 | 83.374 | 5.5 | 1 | Goruckpore (Gorakhpur) | IN | More violent and of a longer duration than the preceding shock; everyone ran outdoors in panic and spent the rest of the night outdoors; open doors slammed; jhilmils rattled; 1 or 2 houses were “shaken down” in the town but in the cantonment was limited to cracks in two places in the verandah walls of civilian bungalows | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/06) |
| 39 | 27.733 | 85.383 | 6.5 | 1 | Gou Karan (Gokarna) | NP | 8 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 40 | 28.420 | 87.741 | F | 0 | Gyangkar | CN | Felt; no time details or descriptions of effects; location included from Ambraseys & Douglas (2004) for completeness | Ambraseys & Douglas (2004) |
| 41 | 27.711 | 85.228 | 6.0 | 3 | Halchok (Dahachok?) | NP | 3 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 42 | 27.721 | 85.336 | 6.5 | 1 | Handigaon | NP | 20 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 43 | 27.639 | 85.349 | 6.5 | 1 | Harra Sidhi (Harisiddhi) | NP | 20 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 44 | 27.599 | 78.050 | 4.0 | 4 | Hatrass (Hathras) | IN | Felt for a minute; considerable; direction from NW-SE (Time of occurrence not reported. Possibly from the strongest event) | Mofussil Akhbar (1833/08/31) |
| 45 | 24.000 | 85.369 | 4.0 | 4 | Hazaribagh | IN | Punkah swung and door rattled | Mofussil Akhbar (1833/09/21) |
| 46 | 27.737 | 85.334 | 6.0 | 3 | Hukm gaon (Hukingaon) | NP | 1 building destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 47 | 23.164 | 79.932 | F | 4 | Jabalpur | IN | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects | Campbell (1833b) |
| 48 | 27.966 | 87.460 | F | 0 | Jiggyob | CN | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects; location included from Ambraseys & Douglas (2004) for completeness | Ambraseys & Douglas (2004) |
| 49 | 85.313 | 27.699 | 7.0 | 1 | Kathmandu = Bagh Durbar/Sundhara | NP | General Bhimsen’s mansion was destroyed; one of two towers in the premises collapsed completely and the top of the second was broken off | Rana (1934) |
| 50 | 85.307 | 27.699 | 7.0 | 1 | Kathmandu = Lagan | NP | Mansions of General Ranabir Singh Thapa and General Mathbar Singh Thapa were destroyed | Rana (1934) |
| 51 | 27.723 | 85.316 | 6.5 | 1 | Kathmandu = Lainchaur | NP | Felt at the British Residency at Lainchaur; the upper storey of the Residency was “nearly gone”; other buildings were badly damaged; it was difficult to walk without “staggering as a landsman does on ship board”; horses and cattle were terrified; lasted 3 min | India Gazette (1833/09/09); Campbell (1833a) |
| 52 | 85.315 | 27.701 | 7.0 | 1 | Kathmandu = Tundikhel | NP | 100-foot tall temple of Jaggannath destroyed | Rana (1934) |
| 53 | 27.678 | 85.276 | 6.5 | 1 | Kirtipur | NP | 2% (14 of 532) houses destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 54 | 28.822 | 85.303 | 7.0 | 3 | Kirung (Gyirong) | CN | 15% of the buildings here (60 of 400) “fairly demolished” and many more seriously injured; Government office, people’s houses, horses, yaks and living stock suffered damages and losses | Campbell (1833b); Chen (1982) |
| 55 | 25.583 | 83.964 | 5.0 | 4 | Koruntadhee | IN | Just as severely as at Buxar; people ran outdoors in the greatest alarm | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/20) |
| 56 | 27.639 | 85.289 | 7.0 | 1 | Kuknah (Khokna) | NP | 130 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 57 | 28.280 | 86.000 | 8.0 | 1 | Kuti (Nyalam) | CN | 90% (550 of 600) buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 58 | 27.990 | 86.170 | 7.0 | 3 | Lamabagar | CN | 12 out of 22 pillars collapsed at the Rongshar Dophenling Monastery; Buddha statue in Jin-ren temple shattered west of the Rongxar Dophenling Monastery; the monks’ dormitory, at the northeast of the Monastery, collapsed | Chen (1982) |
| 59 | 29.651 | 91.171 | 1.0 | 0 | Lhasa | CN | Not felt | Campbell (1833b) |
| 60 | 29.403 | 80.084 | 2.0 | 4 | Lohughar (Lohughat) | IN | “Scarcely felt” by a few (Time of occurrence not reported. Possibly from the strongest event) | McClelland (1835) |
| 61 | 27.639 | 85.367 | 6.5 | 1 | Lubu (Lubhu) | NP | 25 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 62 | 26.848 | 80.944 | 5.0 | 1 | Lucknow | IN | Everyone woken up; felt for 2-3 min; person running during the earthquake lost his balance and fell thrice; the tremulous motion of two of the shocks resembled the motion felt in a steam vessel, the rocking caused the beams of the houses to creak, the lamps to swing to and fro, and in one house fragments of cornice to fall (unclear which shock caused the damage reported in the final sentence). | India Gazette (1833/09/12; 1833/09/18) |
| 63 | 27.420 | 85.169 | 6.0 | 5 | Makwanpur | NP | Fort damaged but less than at Chisapani | Campbell (1833a) |
| 64 | 25.380 | 86.466 | 6.0 | 1 | Monghyr (Munger) | IN | Furniture rattled violently; felt by people outdoors “the ground rising and falling in the most terrific way”; large quantities of plaster were dislodged; beams displaced from sockets; 34 pucca houses in town were severely damaged or fell; large masses of masonry dislodged from the wall of the fort at least 4 places | |
| 65 | 26.736 | 85.327 | 5.5 | 2 | Mullye | IN | “Walls of the houses rocked and shook as though they were about to disport, several tiles were loosened from the roofs, and some of the rafters of the Station Hospital’s chopper fell down; several panes of glass were broken from the violent rattling of the doors, the ground undulated to such a degree as to render it difficult to stand, equal to what is experienced on the deck of a ship when rolling in a calm under the influence of a ground swell” | Calcutta Courier (1833/09/06) |
| 66 | 24.164 | 88.272 | 5.5 | 3 | Murshidabad district | IN | Stronger than preceding; so severe that “I feared the house would be injured. The earth trembled so violently that it was difficult to keep one’s leg.” | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/06) |
| 67 | 27.688 | 85.378 | 6.5 | 1 | Nag Desa (Nakdes) | NP | 20 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 68 | 27.663 | 85.523 | 6.5 | 3 | Nala gaon (Nala) | NP | 11 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 69 | NA | NA | 6.0 | 1 | Narod Devi | NP | 1 building destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 70 | 27.912 | 85.162 | 6.0 | 1 | Nayakot | NP | 3 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 71 | 26.819 | 84.604 | 5.0 | 3.0 | North Tirhoot | IN | Felt for a minute; walls of bungalow rent in many places; doors and wall shades agitated; walls of other buildings cracks; water splashed out of a reservoir | India Gazette (1833/09/09) |
| 72 | 27.670 | 85.281 | 6.5 | 1 | Pagah (Panga) | NP | 24 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 73 | NA | NA | 6.0 | 1 | Pahon (Bahongau?) | NP | 3 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 74 | 27.817 | 83.634 | F | 2 | Palpa | NP | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects | Campbell (1833b) |
| 75 | 27.583 | 85.517 | 6.5 | 1 | Panauti (Panouti) | NP | 19 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 76 | 27.672 | 85.325 | 7.5 | 1 | Patan | NP | 285 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 77 | 25.610 | 85.144 | 6.5 | 1 | Patna-Dinapore-Digah | IN | A number of houses fell including the Raja Khan Bahadur’s stable killing seven horses; the outer wall (boundary wall) of Captain Elliot’s house was levelled to the ground; Mr. E. D’Costa’s house was cracked in many places and a few wall shades fell; several houses in Bankipore were cracked including the gateway built by Maharaja Metre Jeyt Sing while many pukka native dwellings fell “bodily”; buildings were also cracked at Dinapore and between Patna and Digah; several houses thrown down in the Bazaar at Digah | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/04; 1833/09/07); Lawrence (1834) |
| 78 | 27.585 | 85.324 | 6.5 | 1 | Peang (Pyanggau) | NP | 8 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 79 | 27.612 | 85.264 | 6.5 | 1 | Pharphing | NP | 8 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 80 | 27.570 | 85.403 | 7.5 | 3 | Phulam Chock (Phulchowki) | NP | 300 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 81 | 25.783 | 87.466 | 6.0 | 4 | Purneah (Purnea) | IN | Most severe; several old buildings tottered to pieces; a heavy cornice fell and smashed some chairs and a table; masses of bricks fell from arches; birds frightened; men were scarcely able to keep their feet; cattle frightened (unclear which of the two shocks this relates to) | India Gazette (1833/09/06) |
| 82 | 28.000 | 85.902 | 7.0 | 5 | Quxan | CN | Most of the houses collapsed | Chen (1982) |
| 83 | 25.064 | 84.017 | 4.0 | 0 | Rohtas Hills | IN | More severe than the first, lasting 2-3 min; roof of house creaked; lamps swung 2.5-3 m (?) each way | Bengal Hurkaru (1833/09/06) |
| 84 | 28.080 | 86.330 | 7.0 | 1 | Rongxar | CN | Top roof of government office/fort, houses and horse barn collapsed; 22 houses collapsed; 4-pillar Buddhist temple collapsed; bridges also collapsed. | Chen (1982) |
| 85 | 25.734 | 89.275 | 4.5 | 0 | Rungpur (Rangpur) | BD | More severe than the second; lasted more than 40 s | India Gazette (1833/09/03) |
| 86 | 27.750 | 85.647 | 6.5 | 1 | Sakhu (Sankhu) | NP | 45 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 87 | NA | NA | 6.5 | 1 | Sana | NP | 40 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 88 | 27.649 | 85.358 | 6.5 | 1 | Sana gaon (Sana Gaun) | NP | 7 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 89 | 27.634 | 85.482 | 6.5 | 1 | Sanga | NP | 8 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 90 | 27.560 | 85.220 | 6.0 | 1 | Sassanelly | NP | 2 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 91 | NA | NA | 6.5 | 3 | Sassanelly Hills | NP | 20 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 92 | NA | NA | 6.5 | 1 | Selli Gaon | NP | 16 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 93 | NA | NA | 7.0 | 1 | Shipa | NP | Country residence of Col Runbir Sing was seriously injured many small attached houses were destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 94 | 27.715 | 85.290 | 6.0 | 1 | Swambunath (Swayambhunath) | NP | 3 houses destroyed; many stupa slightly damaged but a smaller temple destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 95 | 27.619 | 85.350 | 6.5 | 1 | Taibu (Thaiba) | NP | 18 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 96 | 27.679 | 85.386 | 6.5 | 1 | Temi (Thimi) | NP | 20 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 97 | 27.620 | 85.319 | 7.5 | 1 | Teshu Gaon (Techo/Tesugaon) | NP | 150 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 98 | 27.749 | 85.170 | 6.5 | 3 | Tewanpur (Jeewanpur?) | NP | 10 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 99 | 27.686 | 85.202 | 6.5 | 1 | Thankot | NP | 23 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 100 | 28.580 | 86.616 | F | 0 | Tingri | CN | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects | Campbell (1833b) |
| 101 | 26.120 | 85.365 | 6.0 | 3 | Tirhoot (Tirhut) | IN | Stronger than second event; person once again went outdoors “staggering” as he found it “difficult to retain” his “gravity”; damage to pukka buildings considerable but no more so than at Patna | India Gazette (1833/09/18) |
| 102 | 27.770 | 85.329 | 6.5 | 1 | Tokagaon (Tokha) | NP | 15 buildings destroyed | Campbell (1833a) |
| 103 | 27.980 | 85.980 | F | 0 | Zham/Kassa | CN | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects; location included from Ambraseys & Douglas (2004) for completeness | Ambraseys & Douglas (2004) |
| 104 | 27.990 | 85.980 | 7.0 | 5 | Zhangmu | CN | Most houses collapsed | Chen (1982) |
| 105 | 28.999 | 85.250 | F | 0 | Zongga | CN | Felt; not time details or descriptions of effects; location included from Ambraseys & Douglas (2004) for completeness | Ambraseys & Douglas (2004) |
* NA, geographic coordinates unknown.
† F, felt but no additional information available to assess intensity.
‡ Modern names are in parentheses.
§ Localities within large cities follow the format “city name = locality” (e.g., “Kathmandu = Tundikhel”).
‖ 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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