- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- August 16, 1839 CE
- Location:
- Avant-Pays Savoyard (Annecy)
- Magnitude:
- 3.46 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- AHEAD: Mw 3.46
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.3
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.2
- EMEC_2021: Mw 3.9
- AHEAD: Mw 4.7
Other earthquake records of 1839 CE
- Myanmar (Burma), Ava, Amarapura · 400 deaths
- Martinique, Fort-De-France, St Pierre, Castries · M 7.8 · 390 deaths
- China, Yunnan Province · Ms 6 · 129 deaths
- Taiwan, Jiayi · Ms 6.5 · 117 deaths
- China, Yunnan Province · Ms 6 · 100 deaths
- Venezuela, Cumana
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 1839 Avant-Pays Savoyard (Annecy) earthquake (Mw 3.5) (1839 CE) happen?
- August 16, 1839 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.