- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- July 18, 1556 CE
- Location:
- Transylvania
- Magnitude:
- 4.46 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 4.46
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.1
Other earthquake records of 1556 CE
- China, Shaanxi Province · Ms 8 · 830,000 deaths
- Austria, Probably Karnten
- Turkey, Istanbul
- Turkey, Rosanna, Near Istanbul
- Ecuador · M 7.6
- Turkey · Mw 7.18
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 1556 Transylvania earthquake (Mw 4.5) (1556 CE) happen?
- July 18, 1556 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.