1562 POLAND earthquake (Mw 4.8) (1562 CE)

Name: 1562 POLAND earthquake (Mw 4.8) (1562 CE)
Start: 1562
Location: Poland

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: February 10, 1562 CE
Location:: Poland
Magnitude:: 4.79 Mw
Depth:: 5 km

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 4.79
EMEC_2021: Mw 5.02

Other earthquake records of 1562 CE

Chile · Ms 8
Poland · Mw 5.02
Italy · Mw 4.16
Palermo · Mw 4.2

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 1562 POLAND earthquake (Mw 4.8) (1562 CE) happen?: February 10, 1562 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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