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Reference (with Hotlink) Year Language Notes
Abou Karaki 1987, 1995, 2022 French and English PhD Dissertation and subsequent publications
Agnon 2014 English Concise but thorough and well-informed introduction to the Geology from someone who has participated and guided the research from the early days. Has a catalog of prehistorical earthquakes and the larger historical earthquakes. The historical earthquakes presented are generally reliable for 31 BCE and later.
Al-Hakeem 1988 English
Alsinawi 1988 English
Al-Tarazi 1992 English PhD Dissertation
Ambraseys 1962 English
Ambraseys, Melville, and Adams 1994 English The seismicity of Egypt, Arabia, and the Red Sea
Ambraseys and Finkel 1995 English The Seismicity of Turkey and Adjacent Areas A Historical Review, 1500-1800
Ambraseys and Melville 2005 English A History of Persian Earthquakes
Ambraseys 2009 English strong but not infallible scholarship on textual and archeoseismic sources, ignored a large part of the paleoseismology data, contains seismic insight, interprets the data and texts, one of the best
Amiran 1996 English location index
Amiran et al 1994 English full of references - catalog contains a number of errors
Antonopoulos 1979 English
Arvanitakis 1903 French
As-Suyuti 15th century AD Arabic/English/French various translations exist - translation from Arabic to English by A. Sprenger in 1843 is abridged
Belferman et. al. 2022 English
Ben-Menahem 1976 English sloppy citing sources, contains errors, seismic interpretations are sometimes presented as coming from sources, but contains seismic insight
Ben-Menahem 1979 English sloppy citing sources, contains errors, seismic interpretations are sometimes presented as coming from sources, but contains seismic insight
Ben-Menahem 1982 English sloppy citing sources, contains errors, seismic interpretations are sometimes presented as coming from sources, but contains seismic insight
Ben-Menahem 1991 English sloppy citing sources, contains errors, seismic interpretations are sometimes presented as coming from sources, but contains seismic insight
Berenger 2005 French Article on Epigraphic and Numismatic Evidence for Earthquakes in the Roman Empire from the 1st century BCE until the 2nd century CE
Biblical Earthquakes English
Blankenhorn 1905 German
Bonito 1691 Italian
Brax et. al. 2019 English
Daeron 2005 English PhD Thesis - Lebanese Restraining Bend
Degg and Doorenkamp (1989) 1989 English
Diener 1886 German
Downey 1955 English Earthquakes at Constantinople and Vicinity, A.D. 342-1454
El-Isa 1985 English
El-Isa Et Al 2014 English
Elnashai and El-khoury 2004 English Earthquake Hazard in Lebanon
Filippo da Secinara 1652 Italian
Galli 1906 Italian
Ghawanmeh 1992 English Earthquake effects on Bilad ash-Sham settlements
Gomez et. al. 2003 English Large historical earthquakes in western Syria and Lebanon (32.5° - 35.5° N)
Grigoratos et. al. 2020 English
Grumel 1958 French Heavily cited work for Byzantine Chronology - catalogs earthquakes
Guidoboni Et Al 1994 English up to 10th century - primarily based on textual sources, strong historical scholarship, one of the best
Guidoboni and Comastri 2005 English 11th to 15th century - strong historical scholarship, one of the best
Kagan 2011 English
Kagan Et Al 2011 English
Kallner-Amiran 1952 English
Karcz and Lom 1987 English
Kovach 1987 English Flawed Catalog with useful equations
Ligorio 1574 Italian
Limon 2022 English
Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogs 1994 English list from Guidoboni et al (1994)
Mallet And Mallet 1858 English
Manetti 1457 Italian
Milne 1911 English
Misc English Miscellaneous earthquake reports from various sources
Perry 1848 French
Plassard And Kojoj 1981 French
Poirier And Taher 1980a English
Poirier And Taher 1980b English
Raphael and Agnon 2018 English Bronze and Iron Age Earthquakes in Israel and Jordan
Redwan et al 2002 English pp.26-27 list 3 historical earthquakes
Russell 1985 English examined source documents and archeoseismicity but overstates archeoseismic evidence
Salamon 2008,2009 English Patterns of Aftershock Sequences - GSI Report and subsequent journal article
Salamon Et Al 2010 English from a study of seismic hazard in Jerusalem
Salamon Et Al 2011 English Tsunamis
Sawires Et Al 2015 English Egypt
Sbeinati Et Al 2005 English compilation from other catalogs and source documents, great for references, source document ID and quotes, and locations but be careful - it contains some bad A.H. entries from Willis and some bad entries from Sieberg.
Schmidt 1881 German
Shalem 1949, 1956 Hebrew Earthquakes in Jerusalem, Seismic tidal waves (tsunamis) in the Eastern Mediterranean
Shebalin Et Al 1974 English
Sieberg 1932a German did not cite sources but contains seismic insight. Contains some of Willis' bad A.H. entries
Sieberg 1932b German did not cite sources but contains seismic insight. Contains some of Willis' bad A.H. entries
Soloview 2000 English
Stephenson 2012 English Earthquakes and Plagues (502-748 AD)
Taher 1979 French
Taher 1996 French The Mediterranean Near East, the Eastern Anatolian Fault, the Northern Fault and the Dead Sea Fault: a triple junction
Tholazan 1858 ? French
Von Hoff 1841 German
Willis with corrections 1928 English copy and paste from earlier catalogs, initially misunderstood and misdated Islamic Calendar (A.H.) dates by ~621-622 years but later issued a correction.
Zohar Et Al 2016 English concise descriptions with citations - sorts quake reports by reliability - includes major south levant paleoseismology and some archeoseismicity - particularly good on Ottoman period earthquakes and documenting smaller magnitude earthquakes and swarms
Zohar 2019 English update to 2016
Reference (with Hotlink) Year Language Notes