## 8 Conclusions  
For a reliable assessment of seismic hazards in a given area, it is crucial to have a thorough understanding and accurate quantification of historical earthquakes. However, all that is usually known about earthquakes that occurred prior to the instrumental period is contained in qualitative descriptions of their effects on people, objects, buildings, or nature. These effects are then quantified using various intensity scales. Consequently, it is essential to accurately evaluate the macroseismic intensities of significant historical earthquakes since it is from these (intensities) that the seismological parameters required for the analysis and computation of the seismic hazard for the place of interest, country, or region are determined. The two strongest earthquakes in Serbia in the past three hundred years occurred in the valleys of the Morava and Resava rivers, the first on 4 February 1739, and the second on 8 April 1893. According to various earthquake catalogs prior to 2013, the 1893 event had a magnitude of 6.5 or 6.6. However, in the latest (2013) earthquake catalog of the Seismological Survey of Serbia [2], this earthquake was assigned a magnitude of \(M_{\rm W}=5.8\). However, there is no explanation provided for this choice. In the past ten years, after going through numerous published reports, classic literature and ancient texts, chronicles, newspaper articles, scientific papers, monographs, and macroseismic maps, we managed to compile a database of 538 written reports on the effects of the great 8 April 1893, Svilizanc earthquake. After a careful review and analysis of the compiled database, we came to the conclusion that the pleistosiest area of this earthquake was 531 km\({}^{2}\), corresponding to I = IX\({}^{\circ}\) EMS-98. The next isoseismal area (I = VIII\({}^{\circ}\) EMS-98) closely corresponds to the area encompassing locations with recorded ground fractures and liquefaction, which is roughly 4000 km\({}^{2}\) and which extends 45 km from the epicenter to the north (Malo Crnice), 40 km to the south (Donje Vidovo), 25 km to the east (Petrovac na Mlavi), and 30 km to the west (Velika Plana). As for the boundaries of the total area where the 1893 earthquake was felt, the data show that it was felt on almost the entire territory of former Yugoslavia (there is no data only from Montenegro and Slovenia), whose total area was \(\sim\)250,000 km\({}^{2}\). It also affected the territory of all of modern-day Hungary, with an area of \(\sim\)93,000 km\({}^{2}\), and all of Transylvania and Wallachia (parts of today's Romania with a total area of \(\sim\)238,000 km\({}^{2}\)). In Wallachia, [PERSON] [13] mentions the cities of Turnu Severin, Calafat, Craiova, Bechet, and Corbia; the earthquake was probably also felt in Bucharest because it was felt in Brasov, which is 100 km north of Bucharest. The earthquake was probably also felt in other cities in Wallachia because it was felt even as far as Ruse on the Danube in Bulgaria. It was most likely felt on the half the territory of Bulgaria, whose total area is 100,000 km\({}^{2}\), in parts of Slovakia, whose total area is 49,000 km\({}^{2}\), and parts of Austria, whose total area is 84,000 km\({}^{2}\). This all adds up to at least 700,000 km\({}^{2}\), which is consistent with our estimations of its intensity. Our lower and upper bounds for the areas where the earthquake was at least felt are 625,000 and 837,000 km\({}^{2}\), respectively. The obtained results of the analysis of the 1893 earthquake are as follows: (1) epicentral intensity, \(I_{0}\) = IX EMS, (2) estimations of the moment magnitude and focal depth based on the observed intensities, \(M_{\rm W}\) = 6.8 and \(h\) = 13 km, respectively, and (3) the epicenter coordinates, 44.160\({}^{\circ}\) (44\({}^{\circ}\)09\({}^{\prime}\)36\({}^{\prime\prime}\)) N and 21.354\({}^{\circ}\) (21\({}^{\circ}\)21\({}^{\prime}\)14\({}^{\prime\prime}\)) E (about 15 km SE of Svilajnac, between Subotica and Medveda villages).