- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 27, 1638 CE
- Location:
- Calabria
- Magnitude:
- 7.08 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 7.08
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 7
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.09
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.76
- AHEAD: Mw 6.79
Other earthquake records of 1638 CE
- Italy, Cosenza, Martirano, Nicastro, Calabria · Ms 7 · 9,581 deaths
- Italy, Cotrone · 52 deaths
- Italy · Mw 6.76
- Italy · Mw 4.4
- Switzerland · Mw 3.5
- Italy · Mw 7.09
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 1638 Calabria earthquake (Mw 7.1) (1638 CE) happen?
- March 27, 1638 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.