<p>Geological identification of tsunami deposits is important for tsunami hazard studies, especially in areas where the historical data set is limited or absent. Evidence left by historical tsunamis in the coastal sedimentary record of the Gulf of Corinth ...

In order to reveal the sismotectonic characteristics of eastern Mediterranean, it is necessary to fully describe the main four plates in the region, namely, Eurasia, Anatolia, Africa and Arabic plates and their movements. There are three main centers in the ...

In this paper is investigated the old seismograms of several earthquakes which occurred offshore of Miyagi prefecture in 1933 (June 18, 21:37 UT), 1936 (Nov. 2, 20:45 UT), 1937 (July 26, 19:56 UT), 1978 (June 12, 08:14 UT), and 2005 (Aug. 16, 02:46 UT).

In this paper is outlined some basic information of historical earthquake investigation and research in China, such as collection of historical earthquake data from archives, historical earthquake catalogues, seismic intensity scales.

In the present paper, a review of historical earthquake studies in Greece is attempted. The seismichistory of the country is divided into four main periods. In each one of them, characteristic examples, studiesand approaches are presented.