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"It being reported to the King that the Master of Gray his house did shake and rock in the night as with an earthquake, and the King (then 14 years old) interrogated David Ferguson, Minister of Dunfermline, what he thought it could mean, that the house alone should shake and totter, he answered, 'Sir, why should not the Devil rock his awn bairns?" (John Row, History of the Ki09-ouprk of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1840), quoted among excerpts in Ebenezer Henderson, The Annals of Dumferlineon-lineArchived 11 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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Campbell, Lily B. (1941). "Richard Tarlton and the Earthquake of 1580". Huntington Library Quarterly. 4 (3): 293–301. doi:10.2307/3815706. JSTOR3815706.
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An earlier destructive quake, of 1382, is also well recorded in southern England and Flanders UK EarthquakesArchived 24 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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Campbell, Lily B. (1941). "Richard Tarlton and the Earthquake of 1580". Huntington Library Quarterly. 4 (3): 293–301. doi:10.2307/3815706. JSTOR3815706.
Mild earthquakes are quite common. Earthquakes of magnitude 5 or higher occur about every eight years, the Guardian Unlimited reports (22 October 2002) Archived 23 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
Mild earthquakes are quite common. Earthquakes of magnitude 5 or higher occur about every eight years, the Guardian Unlimited reports (22 October 2002) Archived 23 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
An earlier destructive quake, of 1382, is also well recorded in southern England and Flanders UK EarthquakesArchived 24 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
"It being reported to the King that the Master of Gray his house did shake and rock in the night as with an earthquake, and the King (then 14 years old) interrogated David Ferguson, Minister of Dunfermline, what he thought it could mean, that the house alone should shake and totter, he answered, 'Sir, why should not the Devil rock his awn bairns?" (John Row, History of the Ki09-ouprk of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1840), quoted among excerpts in Ebenezer Henderson, The Annals of Dumferlineon-lineArchived 11 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine