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A prototype HGIS for managing earthquake data from historical documents
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2019 Studies regarding historical seismic events occurred during the pre-instrumental era are mostly based on the interpretation of coeval records reporting earthquake effects on humans and buildings as experienced and reported by witnesses.
Federica Migliaccio +4 more
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Assessing the completeness of Italian historical earthquake data
Annals of Geophysics, 2004 The assessment of the completeness of historical earthquake data (such as, for instance, parametric earthquake catalogues) has usually been approached in seismology - and mainly in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment(PSHA) - by means of statistical ...
A. Rebez +3 more
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Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2023 Deep-sea turbidite has been used to determine the history of occurrence of large earthquakes. Surface-sediment remobilization is a mechanism of the generation of earthquake-induced turbidity currents.
Ken Ikehara +2 more
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Earthquake Response of a Historical Castle
Sultan Qaboos University Journal for Science [SQUJS], 2000 The earthquake hazard potential in the Sultanate of Oman is considered real as there are several reports of felt earthquakes in the Sultanate of Oman during the period from years 977 to 1998, although no damage to the existing structures has been reported due to earthquakes.
Mohammed Qamaruddin, Ali Salim Al-Harthy
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Two strong historicaI earthquakes in Transylvania (Romania): November 19, 1523 and October 3, 1880
Annals of Geophysics, 1996 The investigation into the historical seismicity of Romania evidences the occurrence of two strong earthquakes in Transylvania (central part of Romania) near the localities of Medias (1523) and Tàrnaveni (1880).
E. Toro, C. Radu
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Historical earthquakes in Mexico. Past efforts andnew multidisciplinary achievements
Annals of Geophysics, 2004 The 1985 Mexican earthquakes demonstrated that knowledge concerning their history was still scarce and precarious.In fact those earthquakes acted as triggers, because it was then when a new field of research began to develop: disaster historical research.
V. García Acosta
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Strong historical earthquakes around Osh city, Kyrgyzstan [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis paper presents data on strong earthquakes that occurred in the area around Osh city from various literature sources. The information on strong earthquakes of the past has been compiled on the basis of historical data.
Kamchybekov M. +2 more
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Seismic effects of the strongest historical earthquak in the Syracuse area
Annals of Geophysics, 1995 The effects of earthquakes that occurred in a given area contribute significantly to the evaluation of to local seismic hazard. The information concerning historical earthquakes of the Mediterranean area covers many centuries, but the wealth of ...
D. Mariotti, E. Guidoboni, E. Boschi
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Seismic activity in Ghana: past, present and future
Annals of Geophysics, 2004 Though Ghana is far away from the major earthquake zones of the world, it is prone to earthquake disaster. Ghana has records of damaging earthquakes dating as far back as 1615. The last three major events occurred in 1862, 1906 and 1939.
P. E. Amponsah
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New information on earthquake history of the Aksehir-Afyon Graben System, Turkey, since the second half of 18th century [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2006 Researches aimed at enriching the number of available documentary sources on earthquakes have an important role in seismology. To this end, this paper documents the history of prominent earthquakes associated with the NW-SE trending Sultandag-Aksehir ...
N. Ozer
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