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Damage caused by the January 1693 earthquake in western Sicily, engraving published in Johann Zahn, Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum, Nuremberg, Johann Christoph Lochner, 1696. 

Adam Friedrich Zürner, Planisphaerium terrestre cum utroque coelesti hemisphaerio sive diversa orbis terraquei (c. 1700), in Atlas minor sive Totius orbis terrarum contracta delinea ex conatibus, Amsterdam, Nicolaes Visscher, 1740.

Johann Baptist Homann, Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti Generalis Exhibitio (1707), in Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia Regna et Status Exactis Fabulis Geographice Demonstrans, Nuremberg 1716.

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula (1642), in Pierre-Jean Mariette, Theatre geographique de France, contenant les cartes particulieres de ses provinces. Et celles de ses frontieres & pays adjacens. Le tout selon la table contenue au feuillet suivant, Paris, chez Pierre Mariette, 1653.

The city of Arequipa damaged by the eruption of the Huaynaputina volcano (February 19, 1600), in Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615), Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, GKS 2232, 4o.

Drawing of the Tungurahua volcano (Quito) after the eruption of April 23, 1773, Seville, Archivo General de Indias, MP-PANAMA, 180 – 1

Drawing of the Tungurahua volcano (Quito) and of the nearby towns damaged after the eruption of April 23, 1773, Seville, Archivo General de Indias, MP-PANAMA, 181-1

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