| Reference (with Hotlink) | Year | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abdul-Wahed and Sbeinati | 2023 | Arabic with English Abstract | Historical earthquake catalogue of Aleppo |
| Abou Karaki | 1987, 1995, 2022 | French and English | PhD Dissertation (Synthese et carte sismotectonique des pays de la bordure Orientale de la Mediterranae: sismicite du systeme de failles du Jourdain-Mer-Morte) 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 | Studying of historical earthquakes activity in Syria |
| Alsinawi | 1988 | English | The historical seismicity of the Arab countries |
| Al-Tarazi | 1992 | English | PhD Dissertation (Investigations and Assessment of Seismic Hazard in Jordan and Its Vicinity) |
| Ambraseys | 1962 | English | Data for the investigation of the seismic sea-waves in the Eastern Mediterranean. |
| Ambraseys | 1963 | English | The Seismic History of Cyprus |
| 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 | Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East: a multidisciplinary study of seismicity up to 1900 - 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 | Earthquakes in Israel and adjacent areas: macroseismic observations since 100 B.C.E. - full of references - catalog contains a number of errors |
| Antonopoulos | 1979 | English | Catalogue of Tsunamis in the Eastern Mediterranean from Antiquity to Present Times. |
| Arvanitakis | 1903 | French | Essai sur le climat de Jerusalem - used by Willis (1928) |
| As-Suyuti | 15th century AD | Arabic/English/French | Kasff Al-Salsala Wa Wasf Al-Zalzalah - various translations exist - translation from Arabic to English by A. Sprenger in 1843 is abridged |
| Badawy | 1999 | English | Historical Seismicity of Egypt |
| Belferman et. al. | 2022 | English | Effect of large-scale surface water level fluctuations on earthquake recurrence interval under strike-slip faulting - contains a mini catalog with some quakes not reported in other catalogs |
| Ben-Menahem | 1976 | English | Tectonics, seismicity and structure of the Afro-Eurasian junction the breaking of an incoherent plate - sloppy citing sources, contains errors, seismic interpretations are sometimes presented as coming from sources, but contains seismic insight |
| Ben-Menahem | 1979 | English | Earthquake catalogue for the Middle East (92 B.C. - 1800 A.D.) - sloppy citing sources, contains errors, seismic interpretations are sometimes presented as coming from sources, but contains seismic insight |
| Ben-Menahem | 1982 | English | Earthquake Risk In The Holy Land - sloppy citing sources, contains errors, seismic interpretations are sometimes presented as coming from sources, but contains seismic insight |
| Ben-Menahem | 1991 | English | Four Thousand Years of Seismicity along the Dead Sea rift - 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 | Uber die letzten Erdbeben in Palastina und die Erforschung etwaiger kunftiger |
| Bonito | 1691 | Italian | Terra tremante overo continuatione de' terremoti dalla creatione del mondo sino al tempo presente |
| Brax et. al. | 2019 | English | An Earthquake Catalog for the Lebanese Region |
| Daeron | 2005 | English | PhD Thesis (cinématique et comportement sismique à long terme de la faille de Yammoûneh, principale branche décrochante du coude transpressif libanais)- has a catalog for the Lebanese Restraining Bend |
| Degg and Doorenkamp (1989) | 1989 | English | Earthquake Hazard Atlas, Based on R.O.A. earthquake hazard zonation scheme, 1. Israel 2. Egypt |
| Diener | 1886 | German | Libanon: Grundlinien der physischen Geographie und Geologie von Mittel-syrien |
| Downey | 1955 | English | Earthquakes at Constantinople and Vicinity, A.D. 342-1454 |
| Ducellier | 1980 | French | Les séismes dans le bassin oriental de la Méditerranée du 11e aux 13e siècles |
| El-Isa | 1985 | English | Earthquake Studies of Some Archaeological Sites in Jordan |
| El-Isa Et Al | 2014 | English | Historical seismicity of the Jordan Dead Sea Transform region and seismotectonic implications |
| Ergin Et Al | 1967 | English and Turkish | A Catalogue of Earthquakes for Turkey and Surrounding Area (11 A.D. to 1964 A.D.) |
| Elnashai and El-khoury | 2004 | English | Earthquake Hazard in Lebanon |
| Filippo da Secinara | 1652 | Italian | Trattato vniuersale di tutti li terremoti occorsi, e noti nel mondo, con li casi infausti, ed'infelici pressagiti da tali terremoti. Oue si fà mentione de prencipi, e monarchi, che regnorono in quei tempi. ... Con due tauole, vna delli autori, e l'altra de' terremoti. |
| Galli | 1906 | Italian | I terremoti nel Lazio |
| 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 | An updated parametric catalog of historical earthquakes around the Dead Sea Transform Fault Zone |
| Grumel | 1958 | French | La Chronologie - heavily cited works for Byzantine Chronology - catalogs earthquakes |
| Guidoboni Et Al | 1994 | English | Catalogue of ancient earthquakes in the Mediterranean area up to the 10th century - primarily based on textual sources, strong historical scholarship, one of the best |
| Guidoboni and Comastri | 2005 | English | Catalogue of Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Area from the 11th to the 15th Century - strong historical scholarship, one of the best |
| Kagan | 2011 | English | PhD Thesis (Multi Site Quaternary Paleoseismology Along the Dead Sea Rift: Independent Recording by Lake and Cave Sediment) - contains an earthquake catalog |
| Kagan Et Al | 2011 | English | Intrabasin paleoearthquake and quiescence correlation of the late Holocene Dead Sea - contains an earthquake catalog |
| Kallner-Amiran | 1952 | English | A Revised Earthquake-Catalogue of Palestine |
| Karcz and Lom | 1987 | English | Bibliographic reliability of catalogues of historic earthquakes in and around Israel |
| Kovach | 1987 | English | Seismic Risk in Jordan USGS Report - Flawed Catalog with useful equations |
| Ligorio | 1574 | Italian | Libro o Trattato di diversi terremoti, raccolti da diversi Autori per Pyrro Ligorio cittadino romano, mentre la citta di Ferrara e stata percossa et ha tremato per un simile accidente del moto della terra |
| Limon | 2022 | English | PhD Thesis (High quality parametric seismic catalogues from several sources around the Dead Sea Fault Zone and in Turkey) |
| Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogs | 1994 | English | list from Guidoboni et al (1994) |
| Mallet And Mallet | 1858 | English | The Earthquake Catalogue of the British Association with the Discussion, Curves, and Maps Etc, |
| Manetti | 1457 | Italian | De terremotu |
| Milne | 1911 | English | Catalogue of destructive earthquakes |
| Misc | English | Miscellaneous earthquake reports from various sources | |
| Perry | 1848 | French | Memoire sur les tremblements de terre ressentis dans la peninsule Turco-Hellanique et en Syrie |
| Plassard And Kojoj | 1981 | French | Sismicite du Liban |
| Poirier And Taher | 1980a | English | Large historical earthquakes and seismic risk in Northwest Syria |
| Poirier And Taher | 1980b | English | Historical seismicity in the near and Middle East, North Africa, and Spain from Arabic documents (VIIth-XVIIIth century) |
| Raphael and Agnon | 2018 | English | Bronze and Iron Age Earthquakes in Israel and Jordan |
| Redwan et al | 2002 | English | Geology, Hydrology, Seismology, and Geotechnique of Al-Jafra Site - pp.26-27 list 3 historical earthquakes |
| Russell | 1985 | English | The Earthquake Chronology of Palestine and Northwest Arabia from the 2nd through the Mid-8th Century A.D. - examined source documents and archeoseismicity but overstates archeoseismic evidence |
| Salamon | 2008,2009 | English | Patterns of Aftershock Sequences along the Dead Sea Transform - GSI Report and subsequent journal article |
| Salamon Et Al | 2010 | English | Zones of required investigation for earthquake-related hazards in Jerusalem - contains a catalog |
| Salamon Et Al | 2011 | English | Tsunami Hazard Evaluation of the Eastern Mediterranean: Historical Analysis and Selected Modeling and A critical evaluation of tsunami records reported for the Levant Coast from the second millennium BCE to the present |
| Sawires Et Al | 2015 | English | An Earthquake Catalogue (2200 B.C. to 2013) for Seismotectonic and Seismic Hazard Assessment Studies in Egypt |
| Sbeinati Et Al | 2005 | English | The historical earthquakes of Syria: An analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D. - Extensive and well referenced compilation from other catalogs, scientific articles, and source documents. Frequently provides local intensity estimates and maps. Great for references, source document identification and quotes, and locations. Particularly useful for Syrian Earthquakes and earthquakes documented by Arabic authors. Caution is advised however that it contains some bad A.H. entries from Willis and some bad entries from Sieberg. |
| Schmidt | 1881 | German | Studien Ubber Vulkane und Erdbeben |
| SHARE-CET | online compilation | English | SHARE earthquake catalogue for Central and Eastern Turkey (SHARE-CET) - excel file - parametric, not descriptive |
| Shalem | 1949, 1956 | Hebrew | Earthquakes in Jerusalem, Seismic tidal waves (tsunamis) in the Eastern Mediterranean |
| Shebalin Et Al | 1974 | English | |
| Sieberg | 1932a | German | Erdbebengeographie - did not cite sources but contains seismic insight. Contains some of Willis' bad A.H. entries |
| Sieberg | 1932b | German | Untersuchungen uber erdbeben und bruchschollenbau im ostlichen Mittelmeergebiet, ergebnisse einer erdbebenkundlichen Orientreise - did not cite sources but contains seismic insight. Contains some of Willis' bad A.H. entries |
| Soloview | 2000 | English | Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea 2000 B.C.-2000 A.D |
| Soysal et al. | 1981 | English | Historical Earthquake Catalogue of Turkey and Surrounding Area (2100 B.C. – 1900 A.D.) |
| Stephenson | 2012 | English | Earthquakes and Plagues (502-748 AD) |
| Taher | 1979 | French | Corpus des texts arabes relatifs aux tremblements de terre et autres catastrophes naturelles, de la conquete arabe au XII H/XVIII JC |
| Taher | 1996 | French | Les grandes zones sismiques du monde musulmans a travers l'histoire |
| Tholazan | 1858 ? | French | Sur les tremblements de terre qui ont eu lieu en Orient e du VII xvlle sicle |
| TURHEC | 2021 (v.1) | English | Turkish Homogenized Earthquake Catalogue (TURHEC) - 1900-2018 (v.1) |
| Von Hoff | 1841 | German | Chronik der Erdbeben und Vulcan Ausbruche |
| Willis with corrections | 1928 | English | Earthquakes in the Holy Land - 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 | PhD Thesis (Damage patterns of earthquakes in Israel and its vicinity: Evaluation according to the historical sources) and subsequent article - 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 | Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Seismic Activity Associated with the Dead Sea Transform (DST) during the Past 3000 Yr - update to Zohar et al. (2016) |
| Reference (with Hotlink) | Year | Language | Notes |