I114. Earthquake - are there any people alive? .11.21.24.

Creatures shake the ground when they learn that there are no more inhabitants on it, either to check if they are still alive or to show that they are there themselves.

Tonga, kooki (purum), aka, lushey, Timor (probably tetum).

Bantu-speaking Africa. Tonga (Malawi) [the creator of Chiuta (the same word means lightning and thunder) sometimes asks his people (dead in the underworld) if they are there; they answer him in chorus , pesters are knocking on mortars - this is an earthquake]: Scheub 2000:31.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Cookie (purum) [underground people send a beetle to bring animal manure; when he returns, he says that there are no people or animals left on the ground; then underground people shake the ground to test it; The manure brought by the beetle turns to gold]: Das 1945:217; aka (Hrusso) [the world rests on the back of the Phum-Badra creature; its head faces east, its ass faces west; from time to time an insect Chunchi-Raba-Rubbu tells him that all humans and animals on earth are dead, he is crying with grief, the earth shudders; then people and animals scream, We are here, PB calms down]: Elwin 1958a, No. 7:88 (= 1958b: 96); better [the inhabitants of the lower world shake the ground from time to time to make sure that people on earth are still alive; therefore, during an earthquake, you have to shout, "Alive, alive! ; either the excrement worms go down to the lower world, tell the god of the lower world that everyone above is dead; then he shakes the ground to test it; or the Yangmal worm descends to the god of the lower world peace, taking a piece of land as a gift; this piece turned into gold and silver; the god of the lower world sent Youngmal to bring more, but for some reason he said that the upper world was destroyed; for this check if the lower world god is shaking the ground]: Shakespear 1909:395.

Malaysia-Indonesia. Timor (probably tetum) [people are children of our Sun Father; they work, rejoice when they see him; the moon is jealous; says that when she walked, everything was extinct; Sun: this is how they slept, now I will wake them up; he fell to the ground, it started shaking, people ran out of the huts and started screaming: We're alive! The sun has shone again and the moon has turned pale forever; when the earth shudders, people scream for the Sun to hear them: We are alive!] : Anonimo 1955a: 80.