- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- June 19, 1640 CE
- Location:
- Badolato
- Magnitude:
- 5.8 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 5.8
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.8
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.33
- AHEAD: Mw 5.34
Other earthquake records of 1640 CE
- Ecuador · 5,000 deaths
- Japan, Uchiura Bay · Ms 6.5 · 700 deaths
- Italy, Badolato · 300 deaths
- Germany, Roer Valley
- China, Guangdong Province
- Iran, Tabriz · M 5.1
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 1640 Badolato earthquake (Mw 5.8) (1640 CE) happen?
- June 19, 1640 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.