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Descriptive Catalogues of Historical Earthquakes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East; Revisited

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Historical Seismology

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Ambraseys, N.N. (2008). Descriptive Catalogues of Historical Earthquakes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East; Revisited. In: Fréchet, J., Meghraoui, M., Stucchi, M. (eds) Historical Seismology. Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8222-1_3

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