- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- October 30, 1840 CE
- Location:
- Zakynthos
- Magnitude:
- 6.44 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 6.44
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.5
Other earthquake records of 1840 CE
- Turkey, Mt Ararat, Aguri, Aralikh, Iran: Maku · Ms 6.7 · 1,049 deaths
- Philippines, Sorsogon, Masbate Is, Casiguran, Albay · Ms 6.5 · 52 deaths
- Fiji, Kadavu · 40 deaths
- Greece, Zakinthos (Zante) · 12 deaths
- Pennsylvania, Philadelphia · ML 5.2
- Balkans Nw, Slovenia: Ljubljana · M 4.9
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 1840 Zakynthos earthquake (Mw 6.4) (1840 CE) happen?
- October 30, 1840 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.