1466 L’Aquila earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1466 CE)

Name: 1466 L’Aquila earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1466 CE)
Start: 1466
Location: L’Aquila

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: December 20, 1466 CE
Location:: L’Aquila
Magnitude:: 4.2 Mw

Cross-catalog records

This event is recorded in 4 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
EMEC_2021: Mw 4.63
AHEAD: Mw 4.65

Other earthquake records of 1466 CE

Italy · Mw 5.98
Algeria · Mw 5.76
Italy · Mw 4.16
Italy · Mw 4.63
Gubbio · Mw 4.65
Irpinia · Mw 6

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 1466 L’Aquila earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1466 CE) happen?: December 20, 1466 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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