- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- April 21, 1835 CE
- Location:
- Vrancea deep
- Magnitude:
- 6.5 Mw
- Depth:
- 130 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 2 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- AHEAD: Mw 6.5
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.5
Other earthquake records of 1835 CE
- Turkey · 300 deaths
- Italy, Castiglione, Cosenza, Crati · 100 deaths
- Chile, Concepcion · Ms 8.2 · 53 deaths
- Japan, Sanriku · Ms 7.6
- Indonesia, Maluku: Ambon
- Switzerland
Press of the period
Archive newspaper issues published within a few days of this event. These issues may not report the event itself; they offer a direct window onto the press of the period.
- Journal de la ville et du Grand-Duché de LuxembourgApril 22, 1835open in archive ↗
- The GlamorganApril 18, 1835open in archive ↗
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 1835 Vrancea deep earthquake (Mw 6.5) (1835 CE) happen?
- April 21, 1835 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.
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