Other pages in this series (34) Volume and density of the record (6) Articles Characters Characters per reign-year Article length (median) Share of articles with a historian's comment Share of months without an article Editions compared (4) Size of revised editions Shared-day share Deletions in the Daily Records of Gwanghaegun Historians' comments in revised editions Sky and weather (6) Solar-eclipse articles matched by computation Lunar-eclipse articles matched by computation Daytime Venus records against the Venus cycle Comet and guest-star articles Earthquake articles Summer frost, snow and hail days Politics and appointments (4) Clan concentration among first appointees to high office Share of royal-lecture articles Share of memorial articles Share of articles classified under justice Justice and society (4) Articles mentioning the death penalty Share of famine-relief articles Articles mentioning the vernacular script Share of articles on slaves Record and sky — three sources (6) Solar-eclipse observation reports matched by computation, by source Lunar-eclipse articles: types and match rate, by source Planet articles against the computed sky — Venus elongation and 犯 separations Identification rate of comet and guest-star articles Chronology of naked-eye sunspot articles Same-event reporting between sources The weather cell of the Seungjeongwon Ilgi (4) Token shares of the weather cell and agreement with two datasets Routine-entry index — the bare 晴 and the rain gauge Overlap with modern observations, 1907–1910 Gaps — missing days, empty cells, note-only cells Sky and weather articles
Earthquake articles '地震' articles by year and province, with sample precision.
1,768articles · precision 0.76
Key point
Of earthquake articles, 76% are actual reports, so they are usable as a source for historical seismicity catalogs. Articles without a province are assigned to Seoul, so regional comparisons need care.
Formula Keyword count; province from a province name in the article, otherwise Seoul (observatory report). How to read it Sillok earthquake articles are a main source of the historical seismicity catalog (Lee & Yang 2006). Caveats Assigning articles without a province name to Seoul can misplace provincial reports. Reliability card sampled Sampled precision — share of keyword hits that mean what the metric says, measured on a coded stratified sample Precision 76.3% (Wilson 95% 66.8%–83.8%) on a coded stratified sample of 93 articles (10 per 50-year period, principal editions). The 5 articles left undecided were counted as 'no'. The codebook and all judgments can be downloaded from the Data page.
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'地震' articles per year (principal editions).
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Year Articles Days 1393.0 1.0 1.0 1394.0 1.0 1.0 1397.0 2.0 2.0 1398.0 1.0 1.0 1399.0 1.0 1.0 1401.0 2.0 2.0 1402.0 2.0 2.0 1403.0 1.0 1.0 1405.0 2.0 2.0 1406.0 4.0 4.0 1407.0 2.0 2.0 1408.0 3.0 3.0 1409.0 1.0 1.0 1410.0 4.0 3.0 1411.0 1.0 1.0 1412.0 4.0 4.0 1413.0 5.0 5.0 1414.0 2.0 1.0 1415.0 2.0 2.0 1416.0 3.0 3.0 1418.0 7.0 7.0 1421.0 6.0 6.0 1422.0 12.0 12.0 1423.0 4.0 4.0 1424.0 3.0 3.0 1425.0 5.0 5.0 1426.0 3.0 3.0 1427.0 7.0 6.0 1428.0 10.0 10.0 1429.0 3.0 3.0 1430.0 13.0 12.0 1431.0 5.0 5.0 1432.0 7.0 7.0 1433.0 2.0 2.0 1434.0 1.0 1.0 1435.0 4.0 4.0 1436.0 7.0 6.0 1437.0 5.0 5.0 1438.0 3.0 3.0 1439.0 11.0 11.0 1440.0 1.0 1.0 1441.0 5.0 5.0 1442.0 4.0 4.0 1443.0 3.0 3.0 1444.0 2.0 2.0 1445.0 6.0 6.0 1446.0 1.0 1.0 1447.0 2.0 2.0 1448.0 2.0 2.0 1451.0 3.0 3.0 1452.0 7.0 7.0 1453.0 5.0 5.0 1454.0 8.0 8.0 1455.0 6.0 6.0 1456.0 3.0 3.0 1457.0 1.0 1.0 1458.0 4.0 4.0 1459.0 1.0 1.0 1460.0 2.0 2.0 1461.0 2.0 2.0
By decade and province Decade Gyeonggi Jeolla Hamgil Hamgyeong Pyeongan Chungcheong Gyeongsang Gangwon Hwanghae Seoul (no province named) 1390.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 1400.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 1.0 0.0 13.0 1410.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 1.0 7.0 1.0 0.0 12.0 1420.0 2.0 8.0 1.0 0.0 4.0 3.0 22.0 1.0 1.0 11.0 1430.0 1.0 10.0 1.0 0.0 2.0 2.0 20.0 3.0 0.0 19.0 1440.0 1.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 11.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 6.0 1450.0 1.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 15.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 4.0 1460.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 1470.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 7.0 1480.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 3.0 1.0 0.0 3.0 1490.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 5.0 0.0 1.0 25.0 1500.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 8.0 5.0 5.0 6.0 2.0 19.0 1510.0 10.0 15.0 0.0 1.0 3.0 20.0 29.0 6.0 15.0 53.0 1520.0 13.0 16.0 0.0 3.0 7.0 23.0 34.0 15.0 27.0 57.0 1530.0 1.0 8.0 0.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 7.0 3.0 1.0 20.0 1540.0 9.0 20.0 0.0 1.0 20.0 14.0 20.0 5.0 8.0 56.0 1550.0 7.0 15.0 0.0 3.0 5.0 0.0 17.0 15.0 10.0 53.0 1560.0 2.0 5.0 0.0 4.0 89.0 1.0 8.0 3.0 5.0 12.0 1570.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 1580.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 1590.0 1.0 2.0 0.0 3.0 1.0 7.0 5.0 2.0 2.0 26.0 1600.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 4.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 20.0 1610.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 15.0 1620.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 14.0 1630.0 1.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 0.0 6.0 1.0 2.0 7.0 1640.0 1.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 6.0 1.0 1.0 16.0 1650.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 8.0 5.0 2.0 0.0 33.0 1660.0 1.0 3.0 0.0 2.0 3.0 0.0 4.0 0.0 1.0 26.0 1670.0 3.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 4.0 6.0 0.0 2.0 18.0 1680.0 3.0 4.0 0.0 1.0 3.0 1.0 9.0 6.0 2.0 33.0 1690.0 2.0 5.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 6.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 18.0 1700.0 2.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 9.0 1.0 1.0 27.0 1710.0 3.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 13.0 8.0 11.0 2.0 1.0 7.0 1720.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 5.0 3.0 1.0 3.0 12.0 1730.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 1.0 6.0 2.0 1.0 12.0 1740.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 20.0 1750.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 7.0 1760.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1780.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 1790.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 1800.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 1810.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 1820.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 1840.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0
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