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Historical seismology suggests certain recommendations to assess the reliability of macroseismic information. These recommendations are quite general and have proved their efficiency in many cases. But they should be very carefully applied, because the formal approach used in them is not always reasonable. Based on the analysis of sources relevant to the 1542 earthquake in the north of Russia, it is shown that though the distribution of priorities for sources relying on how close they are to the event works well, it can not be considered a universal rule. Many other details, such as characteristic of the person compiling the document, one’s interests, how free one could access the non-public achirves, and the goal of writing the document, have to be taken into account.
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Original Russian Text © R.E. Tatevossian, T.N. Tatevossian, 2013, published in Voprosy Ingenernoy Seismologii, 2013, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 55–64.
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Tatevossian, R.E., Tatevossian, T.N. On the criteria of macroseismic information reliability: A case study of the 1542 earthquake in the Russian North. Seism. Instr. 50, 116–124 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0747923914020091
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