Yes might be correct but all are depend on the seismotectonic geodynamic characteristics.

Dear Raed

Thank you for your answer and ideas, as far as seismicity is concerned we need the whole spectrum of instrumental, historical and paleoseismicity data. Syria is concerned with the Dead Sea Fault system. that was the subject of my PhD where the instrumental and the historical seismicity were revised, at least 40% of the historical seismicity were fake earthquakes the most obvious examples were in Willis 1928, propagated by Seiberg (1932). and many others later. some of those who produced historical seismicity catalogs thought that it is enough to stack the maximum of references and add all the reported events this is the case of Al-Sinawi and Ghalib (1975) cited in your work, many problems and errors where found in Ben Menahem's catalogs 1979 and 1991. An other type of problems and sometimes manipulation of information were found in Ambraseys et al 1994. here is where you can have a better idea about the details and methodology of the revision processes and results that I applied on the seismicity data leading to decontaminating it from most of the errors

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235790466_An_algorithm_for_the_detection_of_errors_in_the_historical_seismicity_catalogs_of_the_Arab_region

the general methodology in Arabic!

خوارزمية لكشف أخطاء ملفات الزلازل التاريخية في المنطقة العربية.

also

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250927326_Re-evaluating_the_Seismicity_of_the_Jordan_Dead_Sea_Transform_System

and this

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315379590_Abou_Karaki_N_2004_Necessity_to_revise_the_historical_seismicity_of_the_Arabian_Plate_The_example_of_the_11_Jumada_al_awla_460_AH_18_March_1068_AD_Wadi_Araba-Gulf_of_Aqaba_Major_historical_earthquake_

my thesis where you can find the revosed complete catalog of historical

earthquakes

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235783160_Abou_Karaki1987_Thesis

with the resulting digital seismotectonic map 1987

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265905447_AbouKarakiMap1987

I hope you will find this different work, useful .

Article An algorithm for the detection of errors in the historical s...

Conference Paper Re-evaluating the Seismicity of the Jordan Dead Sea Transform System

Conference Paper Abou Karaki N., 2004, Necessity to revise the historical sei...

Thesis Abou Karaki(1987) Thesis

Data AbouKarakiMap1987

Dear Najib,

Thank you so much for providing such research works. Even Sbeinati et al. 2005 article contains same problems. I discover such problems earlier, but we cite their work in our references. Historical seismicity is our major problem. I will go through your recommended articles. Thank you again.