Seismic sea-waves in the Marmara Sea region during the last 20 centuries

An examination of historical sources confirms thatrelatively little can be found about seismic sea-waves in the Marmara Searegion. We find that during the last 20 centuries there have been 16earthquakes which seem to be associated with seismic sea-waves, six ofwhich were damaging. Most of these events were reported from the northcentral and north-east coast of the Sea of Marmara and from the Gulf ofIzmit, from where there is some evidence that the source mechanism ofsome of them was coastal mass failures and sliding of submarine sediments.Another 16 sea-waves reported in literature are found to be spuriousevents.