- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January 26, 1690 CE
- Location:
- Valle umbra
- Magnitude:
- 4.65 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 4.65
- NOAA_SIGEQ: M 5.6
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.63
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.4
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.86
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.58
Other earthquake records of 1690 CE
- Turkey, Istanbul (Constantinople) · 20 deaths
- Austria, Carinthie · 20 deaths
- Italy, Ancona · M 5.6 · 10 deaths
- Romania · Mw 3.53
- Indonesia, South Maluku
- Antigua, Saint Kitts And Nevis · Ms 8
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 1690 Valle umbra earthquake (Mw 4.7) (1690 CE) happen?
- January 26, 1690 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.