Historical seismicity in the Middle East: new insights from Ottoman primary sources (sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries)

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2015-10-01

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Tülüveli, Güçlü

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Considerable academic effort has been given to chart the history of the seismic activity in Middle East region. This short survey intends to contribute to these scientific attempts by analyzing Ottoman primary sources. There had been previous studies which utilized similar primary sources from Ottoman archives, yet 15 new earthquakes emerged from these sources. Moreover, the seismic impact of five known earthquakes will be analyzed in the light of new data from Ottoman primary sources. A possible tsunami case is also included in this section. The sources cover the period between sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century. This article intends to foster interdisciplinary dialogue for the purpose of initiating further detailed studies on past seismic events.

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Historical seismicity, Earthquakes in the Middle East, Earthquakes in early modern period

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44293

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JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-015-9499-7

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Department of History, Article

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G. Tülüveli, “Historical seismicity in the Middle East: new insights from Ottoman primary sources (sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries),” JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY, pp. 1003–1008, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/44293.