- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- February 23, 1818 CE
- Location:
- Liguria occidentale-Francia
- Magnitude:
- 5.36 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 5.36
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.32
- AHEAD: Mw 3.66
- AHEAD: Mw 4.51
- AHEAD: Mw 4.42
Other earthquake records of 1818 CE
- Mexico, Morelos-Guerrero, Mexico City, Guadalajara · Ms 8.2 · 2,000 deaths
- Italy, Madonie · 100 deaths
- Italy, Acireale, Catania, Calabria · 72 deaths
- Mexico · Ms 7.5
- Bulgaria
- Italy, Liguria, France: Vence, Grasse, Nice
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 1818 Liguria occidentale-Francia earthquake (Mw 5.4) (1818 CE) happen?
- February 23, 1818 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.