- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- August 16, 1784 CE
- Location:
- SA af Selfossi
- Magnitude:
- 6.7 Mw
- Depth:
- 7 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 5 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- AHEAD: Mw 6.7
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.61
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.32
- AHEAD: Mw 7.1
Other earthquake records of 1784 CE
- Turkey, Erzurum, Erzincan · 5,000 deaths
- Peru, Arequipa, Camana, Moquegua, Tambo · Ms 8 · 383 deaths
- Iceland, Southland, Arnessysla, Bangar, Sysla
- Haiti, Petit Goave, Leogane, Port-Au-Prince
- Mexico, Oaxaca
- Mexico, Guerrero, Acapulco
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 1784 SA af Selfossi earthquake (Mw 6.7) (1784 CE) happen?
- August 16, 1784 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.