Johannes Malalas, citing a lost 6th century CE Chronicle by Domninos, wrote that an earthquake struck Antioch at ~4pm on the 21st of February in a year that is difficult to determine as the time markers he provided are chronologically inconsistent. These markers could point to a year of 148 BCE, 130 BCE, or sometime in the 1st century BCE. It is also possible that this is a spurious event. No other authors are known to document this earthquake.

Considering the confused nature of Malalas' chronology, it is possible that the Malalas Confusion Quake is the same quake as the Dead Fish and Soldiers Quake of ~142 BCE. Since Karcz (2004) suggested the possibility that the 17th of Adar Quake could also be the same quake as the Dead Fish and Soldiers Earthquake, it is possible that all three accounts refer to the same earthquake or different parts of the same seismic sequence.

Jordan Pickett in De Giorgi et al. (2024:436-438) does not list any archaeoseismic evidence for this alleged earthquake.