- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- October 18, 1843 CE
- Location:
- Chalke
- Magnitude:
- 6.47 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 6.47
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 5.9
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.6
Other earthquake records of 1843 CE
- Guadeloupe, Pointe-A-Pitre · M 8.3 · 5,000 deaths
- Iran, Khvoy (Khoy) · 1,000 deaths
- Japan, Hokkaido: Yezo, Kushiro, Nemuro · Ms 8.4 · 45 deaths
- India, Deccan
- New Zealand, Wanganui · Ms 7.5
- Iran, Azarbaijan: Khvoy (Khoy)
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 1843 Chalke earthquake (Mw 6.5) (1843 CE) happen?
- October 18, 1843 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.