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Modern earthquake catalogues have been found unreliable in reporting earthquakes which occurred before 1900, because of a series of errors perpetuated at second and third hand. A new study of the original records provides significant data relating earthquake activity in the Eastern Mediterranean basin with plate tectonic activity over the past 2,000 years.
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AMBRASEYS, N. Value of Historical Records of Earthquakes. Nature 232, 375–379 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232375a0
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