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Historical Seismograms - Evidence from the AD 2000 Izu Islands ...

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The History of Earthquakes in <strong>the</strong> Nor<strong>the</strong>rn North Seaso1Figure 1. As a result of detailed researches of contemporary reports preserved in localnewspapers, <strong>the</strong> 1865/5/7 earthquake, considered in all previous catalogues as having anepicenter in <strong>the</strong> North Sea, has been shown to have been located onshore in Rogaland, to<strong>the</strong> nor<strong>the</strong>ast of Stavanger.can be found, serves as a template to locate <strong>the</strong> epicenter of <strong>the</strong> earlier event, forwhich <strong>the</strong>re is no instrumental record. For an event felt on both sides of <strong>the</strong> NorthSea, geometrical constraints may be sufficient in <strong>the</strong>mselves to locate <strong>the</strong> epicenter,as demonstrated in Figure 3.Once an event has been located, its magnitude needs to be determined. In <strong>the</strong>past <strong>the</strong> assignment of magnitude values to historical earthquakes in <strong>the</strong> region hasbeen a major stumbling block. This has been resolved with <strong>the</strong> establishment of acorrelation between surface wave magnitude (Ms) and felt area (AIII, AIV) within<strong>the</strong> outer isoseismals I11 and IV. This takes <strong>the</strong> form (Principia, 1985):

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