1572 Innsbruck earthquake (Mw 4.9) (1572 CE)

Name: 1572 Innsbruck earthquake (Mw 4.9) (1572 CE)
Start: 1572
Location: Innsbruck

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: January 4, 1572 CE
Location:: Innsbruck
Magnitude:: 4.87 Mw

Cross-catalog records

This event is recorded in 2 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):

AHEAD: Mw 4.87
EMEC_2021: Mw 4.99

Other earthquake records of 1572 CE

Austria · Mw 4.99
Greece · Mw 6.4
Italy · Mw 4.63
Romania · Mw 3.53
Romania · Mw 3.53
Romania · Mw 3.53

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 1572 Innsbruck earthquake (Mw 4.9) (1572 CE) happen?: January 4, 1572 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.

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