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Sourced using AI1989 · Pasto, Nariño
Read record →Sourced using AI1922 · The Netherlands, location to be established
Read record →Sourced using AInineteenth century · Trinidad, Guyana, and the wider eastern Caribbean
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · RAF Leuchars, Fife, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AIPublished 1627 · Hangzhou and West Lake, Ming China
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century castle folklore · Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 320–330 CE · Jiangnan, China
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval and early modern Ge'ez textual tradition; dating varies by recension · Ethiopia
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Lucknow, United Provinces
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Hilo, Hawaiʻi
Read record →Sourced using AI1953 · Karachi, Sindh
Read record →Sourced using AI1886–present · Chesterfield, Indiana, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Phoenix area, Arizona
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Kandy, Sri Lanka
Read record →Sourced using AIBefore 1900 · China, Mongolia, Korea, or Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1930s, exact year uncertain · Hsinking (Changchun), Manchuria
Read record →Sourced using AI2008–2010 · Firmat, Santa Fe
Read record →Sourced using AI2005 · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Eastern Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI20th century–present; exact reports vary · Island of Mozambique, Nampula Province
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Sofia, Bulgaria
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober 2007 · Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata
Read record →Sourced using AI2–4 March 1943 · Bismarck Sea, near New Guinea
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AITradition recorded in early twentieth-century Colombian writing · Lake Tota, Boyacá, Colombia
Read record →Sourced using AISummer–autumn 1952 · Multiple locations in Norway
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Albuquerque and central New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1915 · Dardanelles and Gallipoli Peninsula
Read record →Sourced using AI1926 · Lough Fadda, County Galway
Read record →Sourced using AI1919–1923 · Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 reports and heritage retellings · Cape Town, Western Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI1960 · Seoul area, South Korea
Read record →Sourced using AI2001 · Florence, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AIK'iche' Maya text recorded in the 16th century; known through a colonial-era manuscript · K'iche' Maya region of the Guatemalan highlands
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Wellington, North Island
Read record →Sourced using AIFebruary 1909 · Hartford, Connecticut
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Pakistan, location to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI1983–1990 · San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Hobart, Tasmania
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–2009 · Tasmania, Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI19 May 1986 · Anápolis, Goiás
Read record →Sourced using AI1991 decision concerning earlier reports · Nyack, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1937–1946 · Aksum, Tigray Region; Rome, Italy
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Willemstad, Curaçao
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Norrköping, Östergötland
Read record →Sourced using AIMajor reported panics in Zanzibar from the 1960s, with later recurrences · Zanzibar, especially Pemba and Unguja
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Orissa, now Odisha
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