- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- February 5, 1783 CE
- Location:
- Calabria
- Magnitude:
- 7.08 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 7.08
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 5.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 5.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ
Other earthquake records of 1783 CE
- Italy, Tyrrhenian Calabria · Ms 6.9 · 30,000 deaths
- Italy, Messina Straits · Ms 5.9 · 1,500 deaths
- Greece, Lefkada · Mw 6.5 · 60 deaths
- Italy, Tyrrhenian Calabria
- Italy, Tyrrhenian Calabria · Ms 5.9
- Dominican Republic, Santiago De Los Caballeros
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 1783 Calabria earthquake (Mw 7.1) (1783 CE) happen?
- February 5, 1783 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.