- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- May, 1758 CE
- Location:
- Maliakos Gulf
- Magnitude:
- 6.6 Mw
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 6.6
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.6
Other earthquake records of 1758 CE
- Tunisia, Tunis, Constantine · 3,000 deaths
- Azores, Luz
- SE Mediterranean (EMEC kodu, Tn) · Mw 6.96
- Portugal · Mw 3.96
- Fennoscandia, Baltics, Kola Peninsula and adjacent waters · Mw 3.69
- Finland · Mw 3.56
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 1758 Maliakos Gulf earthquake (Mw 6.6) (1758 CE) happen?
- May, 1758 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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