1513 Messina earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1513 CE)

Name: 1513 Messina earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1513 CE)
Start: 1513
Location: Messina

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: August 25, 1513 CE
Location:: Messina
Magnitude:: 4.2 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 4.2
EMEC_2021: Mw 4.16

Other earthquake records of 1513 CE

Peru · M 8.7
Italy · Mw 4.16
Greece · Mw 7.2
Greece · Mw 6.5
Italy · Mw 4.16
Turkey · Mw 7.5

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 1513 Messina earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1513 CE) happen?: August 25, 1513 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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