- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- August 22, 1859 CE
- Location:
- Norcia
- Magnitude:
- 5.67 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 3 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- AHEAD: Mw 5.67
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.73
Other earthquake records of 1859 CE
- Turkey, Erzurum · M 6.1 · 15,000 deaths
- Italy · 100 deaths
- Azerbaijan, Shemakha (Semacha) · M 5.9 · 100 deaths
- Chile · Ms 7.6 · 10 deaths
- S. Java Sea · 2 deaths
- Turkey, Imbros (Imroz), Lemnos · Mw 6.9
Source: Albini, P., Locati, M., Rovida, A. & Stucchi, M. (2013): European Archive of Historical Earthquake Data (AHEAD), INGV, doi:10.6092/ingv.it-ahead · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 1859 Norcia earthquake (Mw 5.7) (1859 CE) happen?
- August 22, 1859 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Albini, P., Locati, M., Rovida, A. & Stucchi, M. (2013): European Archive of Historical Earthquake Data (AHEAD), INGV, doi:10.6092/ingv.it-ahead; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.