1469 Cephalonia earthquake (Mw 6.6) (1469 CE)

Name: 1469 Cephalonia earthquake (Mw 6.6) (1469 CE)
Start: 1469
Location: Cephalonia

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: 1469 CE
Location:: Cephalonia
Magnitude:: 6.62 Mw

Cross-catalog records

This event is recorded in 3 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):

AHEAD: Mw 6.62
NOAA_SIGEQ
EMEC_2021: Mw 7.2

Other earthquake records of 1469 CE

Greece
Italy · Mw 4.16
Firenze · Mw 4.2
Greece · Mw 7.2

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 1469 Cephalonia earthquake (Mw 6.6) (1469 CE) happen?: 1469 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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