http://www.archive.org/stream/earthupheaval010880mbp/earthupheaval010880mbp_djvu.txt
Excerpt:
And if we give credence to the records of earthquakes
in the chronicles of the ancient East and in those of the
classical age, we shall be amazed at the number of seismic
shocks and tremors. One example is the Babylonian rec-
ords on clay tablets stored in the library of Nineveh,
excavated by Sir Henry Layard; another is the Roman
records of a later age: in a single year during the Punic
Wars (217) fifty-seven earthquakes were reported in
Rome. 7
From all this it is apparent that seismic activity on our
planet subsided very quickly in intensity as well as in the
number of occurrences; and this again would point to a
stress or stresses that took place not so long ago: earth-
quakes are readjustments of the terrestrial strata, with
accompanying relief from the stress.
Thanks Fred Nerks for the EiU.
I’m scratching my head over who sent this link, I really thought I had that info saved along with the file:
http://muller.lbl.gov/teaching/Physics10/Nemesis%20book/%20Nemesis1_files/filelist.xml