- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- July 31, 1561 CE
- Location:
- Irpinia
- Magnitude:
- 6.43 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 6.43
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.34
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.56
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.72
Other earthquake records of 1561 CE
- China, Ningxia: E Of Zhongwei · Ms 7.3 · 1,001 deaths
- Italy, Picerno, Tito, Buccino · 600 deaths
- Italy · Mw 6.34
- Hungary · Mw 5.33
- Italy, Vallo Di Diano
- China, Shaanxi, Gansu, And Shanxi Provinces
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 1561 Irpinia earthquake (Mw 6.4) (1561 CE) happen?
- July 31, 1561 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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