- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 6, 1719 CE
- Location:
- Portimao.PORT
- Magnitude:
- 4.79 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 3 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- AHEAD: Mw 4.79
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.86
Other earthquake records of 1719 CE
- Turkey · 6,000 deaths
- Portugal, Algarve, Spain · 3 deaths
- El Salvador, San Salvador · M 7.6
- Italy · Mw 4.94
- Portugal · Mw 4.86
- Morocco, Marrakech
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 1719 Portimao.PORT earthquake (Mw 4.8) (1719 CE) happen?
- March 6, 1719 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.