- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 19, 1706 CE
- Location:
- Reggio Calabria
- Magnitude:
- 4.73 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 4.73
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.76
Other earthquake records of 1706 CE
- Italy, Sulmona To Campobasso, Abruzzi · 1,000 deaths
- Italy · Mw 4.76
- Austria · Mw 3.93
- North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland · Mw 6.8
- Switzerland · Mw 3.9
- Iceland, Selfoss
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 1706 Reggio Calabria earthquake (Mw 4.7) (1706 CE) happen?
- March 19, 1706 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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