The court's daily record for 1490 has no stone fall and no mass deaths at Qingyang, though it has four of the Ming History's other five portents of that year

Searched the Xiaozong shilu for every month of Hongzhi 3 and the first two of Hongzhi 4 (juan 34-48). Present, matching the Ming History almost word for word: the fireball that fell with a sound like thunder at Yilong, Sichuan (3rd month, gengwu = 7 April 1490), the Jinglu windstorm, the Hezhou landslide (which the Shilu says came with 'great hail'), the northern locusts. Hail is reported at Wujin, Gubeikou and Hezhou. Qingyang appears only in administrative entries. In the intercalary 9th month the Ministry of Rites summed up the year's reports of 'wind, thunder, rain, hail, landslides and earthquakes'; no stones. A disaster that killed 10,000 people would bring reports, relief grain and tax cuts, as the many flood and drought entries show. The Gansu provincial gazetteer (1736), which lists two-headed hares, also has nothing for 1490. Caveat: the Shilu text used is an unproofread digital copy.