ABSTRACT
The powerful representation of a living earth—a drunk and sneezing one, no less—triumphs among explanations. In premodern history, "earthquake monitoring was restricted for the most part to documenting earthquakes through their felt effects, not always scientifically". The earthquake imprinted the body-mind and altered all other sensory-related terrain immediately, making its popularity as a subject for pamphlets easy to anticipate. Thomas Churchyard’s is the earliest of the earthquake pamphlets that survives for examination, and in it, Churchyard primarily cries out against sin and calls on readers to examine their consciences; he says, are the only responses to the earthquake experience. Abraham Fleming’s pamphlet's vehemence outdoes that of Arthur Golding's church-sanctioned earthquake explanation. As Aristotle explains: Wind is also the cause of noises beneath the earth among them the noises that precede earthquakes, though they have also been known to occur without an earthquake following.
