Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Aktif Tektonik Araştırma Grubu 28. Çalıştayı, Aydın, Türkiye, 5 - 07 Kasım 2025, ss.62-63, (Özet Bildiri)
Strabo, one of the most important historians of antiquity and known as the father of geography, was born in 64 BC in Amasya city, located in present-day Turkey. His greatest work, Geographika (Geography), which also covers the Anatolian continent where he was born and lived, is the first example of its kind. This giant 17-volume work contains important historical and geographical information about the known world of the time, spanning from the Iberian Peninsula to India, from Ireland to North Africa, and including the Arabian Peninsula and Anatolia.
In Strabo's Geographika, the first 2 volumes focus on the definition, history, and mathematics of geography. In the 3rd volume, he begins his narrative from the Iberian Peninsula in the far southwest, and in the 4th volume, he expands it to include Britain, Ireland, and the islands to the north. It contains records on Italy, Europe, Greece and the islands up to the 10th volume. In Volume 11, Strabo progresses from Russia to the Caucasus, and from the Southern Caspian Basin to Central Asia, In Volumes 12, 13, and 14, he describes the physical and historical conditions of Anatolia and the islands east of the Aegean Sea. The last three remaining volumes of Geographica contain records of Strabo's observations focusing on India, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Strabon's earthquake accounts in Geographika are mostly used by archaeologists and archaeoseismologists for specific archaeological sites. However, a holistic evaluation of these narratives has not been made and they have not been systematically examined within the perspective of today's active tectonics. This study focuses on geolocating and spatially distributing Strabo's earthquake-related records and determining the extent to which this distribution is consistent with the current active fault inventory and instrumental seismicity. Within this context, all 17 volumes of Strabo's work Geographika have been scanned; explanations directly and/or indirectly related to earthquakes have been systematically compiled. In total, 32 paragraphs related to earthquakes were identified in 20 different sections across 15 volumes. These accounts were first separated according to location distribution and geo--located, then the relationships between these locations and today's active tectonic structure and active fault zones were investigated and compared with modern geoscientific data in the literature. This study has created a perspective that supports the compatibility of Strabo's objective observations from ancient times with the earthquake records carried over to the present day and their geographical consistency with the current tectonic structure.