- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- April 11, 1688 CE
- Location:
- Romagna
- Magnitude:
- 5.83 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 5 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- AHEAD: Mw 5.83
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.84
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.16
- AHEAD: Mw 4.2
Other earthquake records of 1688 CE
- Turkey, Izmir · Ms 7 · 16,000 deaths
- Italy, Benevento · 3,311 deaths
- Italy, Pisticci · 2,000 deaths
- China, Yunnan Province · Ms 6.3 · 190 deaths
- Jamaica, Port Royal
- Pakistan, Delta Of The Indus
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 1688 Romagna earthquake (Mw 5.8) (1688 CE) happen?
- April 11, 1688 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.