| Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne (Poem About the Lisbon Disaster) | Voltaire | 1756 | didactic poem | 🔗 |
| Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | philosophical novel | 🔗 |
| Briefe über Kalabrien und Sizilien (Teil 1): Reise von Neapel bis Reggio in Kalabrien (Letters about Calabria and Sicily | Johann Heinrich Bartels | 1791 | travelogue, first person account, essay | 🔗 |
| Das Erdbeben in Chili (The Earthquake in Chile) | Heinrich von Kleist | 1807 | novella | 🔗 |
| Italienische Reise (Journey to Italy) | Johann Wolfgang Goethe | 1816 | travelogue, diary, memoir, letter | 🔗 |
| Darkness | George Gordon Byron | 1816 | lyric | 🔗 |
| Journal of a Residence in Chile during the Year 1822 | Maria Graham | 1824 | travelogue | 🔗 |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 1834 | historical novel | 🔗 |
| Viaje al Vesubio (Voyage to Vesuvius) | Ángel De Saavedra | 1844 | article, travelogue | 🔗 |
| La ginestra, o il fiore del deserto (The broom, or The Flower of the desert) | Giacomo Leopardi | 1845 | poetry | 🔗 |
| Pictures from Italy | Charles Dickens | 1846 | travelogue | 🔗 |
| The Crater. Or, Vulcan's Peak. A Tale of the Pacific | James Fenimore Cooper | 1847 | dystopian novel | 🔗 |
| Eine Reise durch die neapolitanische Provinz Basilicata und die angrenzenden Gegenden: mit Berücksichtigung des jüngsten | Carl Wilhelm Schnars | 1859 | travelogue | 🔗 |
| The Ruins of San Francisco | Bret Harte | 1868 | non fiction | 🔗 |
| The Captain's Last Love | William Wilkie Collins | 1876 | short story | 🔗 |
| Inilah Syair Lampung Karam Adanya (Krakatau. The Tale of Lampung Submerged) | Muhammad Saleh | 1888 | narrative poem, didactic poem | 🔗 |
| A Matter of Fact | Rudyard Kipling | 1892 | short story | 🔗 |
| Kapiolani | Alfred Tennyson | 1892 | didactic poem, ode, lyric | 🔗 |
| The Thames Valley Catastrophe | Grant Allen | 1897 | short story | 🔗 |
| The Star | H.G. Wells | 1897 | short story, sci fi | 🔗 |
| The Story of An Eyewitness | Jack London | 1906 | essay | 🔗 |
| Sterminator Vesevo (Vesuvius The Great Exterminator) | Matilde Serao | 1906 | first person account | 🔗 |
| Il negro di Saint-Pierre (The Saint-Pierre Negro) | Giovanni Pascoli | 1906 | narrative poem | 🔗 |
| Das Erdbeben (The Earthquake) | Karl Kraus | 1908 | essay, non fiction | 🔗 |
| Il Professor Terremoto (Professor Earthquake) | Luigi Pirandello | 1922 | novella | 🔗 |
| San Francisco. April 18, 1906 | Ina Coolbrith | 1929 | elegy, lyric | 🔗 |
| Das Erdbeben (The Earthquake) | Reinhold Schneider | 1932 | novella | 🔗 |
| Der Vulkan (The Volcano) | Klaus Mann | 1939 | autobiographical novel | 🔗 |
| Lieder von einer Insel (Songs of an Island) | Ingeborg Bachmann | 1954 | lyric | 🔗 |
| Earthquake (Salkey) | Andrew Salkey | 1965 | novella | 🔗 |
| "Il terremoto di Agadir" ("The Agadir Earthquake") | André Kaminski | 1983 | short story | 🔗 |
| A Canoe in the Mist | Elsie Locke | 1984 | historical novel | 🔗 |
| The Ivory Acrobat | Don DeLillo | 1988 | short story | 🔗 |
| The Volcano Lover | Susan Sontag | 1992 | biographical novel, historical novel | 🔗 |
| Fires of Eden | Dan Simmons | 1994 | horror novel, mystery | 🔗 |
| The Ground Beneath Her Feet | Salman Rushdie | 1999 | fantasy novel, epic novel, biofiction | 🔗 |
| White Teeth | Zadie Smith | 2000 | | 🔗 |
| Surviving Galeras | Stanley Williams and Fen Montaigne | 2001 | memoir | 🔗 |
| Volcano Verses | Horward A. Fergus | 2003 | narrative poem, lyric, elegy | 🔗 |
| Pompeii | Robert Harris | 2003 | historical novel | 🔗 |
| Volcano | Ivonne Weekes | 2006 | memoir | 🔗 |
| Non ti preoccupare | Mahsa Mohebali | 2008 | social novel | 🔗 |
| The Earth Shook. A Persian Tale | Donna Jo Napoli | 2009 | fairy tale | 🔗 |
| Krakatoa Lighthouse | Allan Baillie | 2009 | historical novel | 🔗 |
| Quando Lisboa tremeu (When Lisbon quaked) | Domingos Amaral | 2010 | historical novel | 🔗 |
| L’ultima sposa di Palmira (The Last Bride of Palmira) | Giuseppe Lupo | 2011 | social novel, historical novel | 🔗 |
| A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki | 2013 | biographical novel, eco fiction, philosophical novel | 🔗 |
| Stikvallei (The Enigma of the Red Lake) | Frank Westerman | 2013 | historical novel, non fiction | 🔗 |
| Bella mia (My Darling) | Donatella Di Pietrantonio | 2014 | social novel | 🔗 |
| Earthquakes and Butterflies. Ōtautahi Christchurch | Kathleen Gallagher | 2015 | eco fiction | 🔗 |
| Quaking Cantos. Nepal Earthquake Poems | Yuyutsu Sharma | 2016 | lyric, elegy | 🔗 |
| Here I Am | Jonathan Safran Foer | 2016 | biographical novel, social novel | 🔗 |
| Latitudes of Longing | Shubhangi Swarup | 2018 | eco fiction | 🔗 |
| Heimkehr nach Fukushima | Adolf Muschg | 2018 | philosophical novel, eco fiction, social novel | 🔗 |
| To the Volcano | Elleke Boehmer | 2019 | short story | 🔗 |
| Eldarnir. Ástin og aðrar hamfarir (The Fires) | Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir | 2020 | eco fiction, dystopian novel | 🔗 |
| The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times | Amitav Ghosh | 2022 | short story | 🔗 |
| Rombo | Esther Kinsky | 2022 | eco fiction, social novel | 🔗 |
| Heat | Jean Rhys | Unspecified | short story | 🔗 |
| Earthquake (Hodgins) | Jack Hodgins | Unspecified | short story | 🔗 |
| Trema la notte (The Night Trembles) | Nadia Terranova | 2022 | historical novel, social novel | 🔗 |
