“…Table A1 summarizes published references to historical earthquakes that may be associated with surface rupture along the NAF [Ambraseys, 2002[Ambraseys, , 1970Ambraseys and Finkel, 1987, 1995Ambraseys and Jackson, 1998;Ambraseys, 2001;Guidoboni et al, 1994;Guidoboni and Comastri, 2005;Nur and Cline, 2000;Nur and Burgess, 2008;Stein et al, 1997;Tibi et al, 2001]. Many of the reported earthquakes come from near Erzincan in the east and Istanbul in the west, while the records from the central portion of the NAF are sparser.…”