1708 Pollino earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1708 CE)

Name: 1708 Pollino earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1708 CE)
Start: 1708
Location: Pollino

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: April 15, 1708 CE
Location:: Pollino
Magnitude:: 4.2 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 4.2
EMEC_2021: Mw 5.56
EMEC_2021: Mw 4.86
EMEC_2021: Mw 4.16
AHEAD: Mw 4.88
AHEAD: Mw 5.56

Other earthquake records of 1708 CE

Tokaido, Japan · Ms 7
Indonesia, Banda Sea
Italy · Mw 5.56
Italy · Mw 4.86
France · Mw 5.3
France, Manosque

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 1708 Pollino earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1708 CE) happen?: April 15, 1708 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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