- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January 11, 1693 CE
- Location:
- Sicilia orientale
- Magnitude:
- 7.34 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 7.34
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 7.4
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.07
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.32
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.63
Other earthquake records of 1693 CE
- Italy, Sicily, Calabria, Catania · Ms 6 · 60,000 deaths
- Italy, Sicily, Calabria · Mw 7.4 · 54,000 deaths
- Italy · Mw 7.32
- Italy · Mw 6.07
- Italy · Mw 5.27
- Cuba, Havana
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 1693 Sicilia orientale earthquake (Mw 7.3) (1693 CE) happen?
- January 11, 1693 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.