1420 Thessaloniki earthquake (Mw 6.5) (1420 CE)

Name: 1420 Thessaloniki earthquake (Mw 6.5) (1420 CE)
Start: 1420
Location: Thessaloniki

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: July, 1420 CE
Location:: Thessaloniki
Magnitude:: 6.45 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 6.45
EMEC_2021: Mw 6

Other earthquake records of 1420 CE

Italy · Mw 4.4
Siena · Mw 4.43
Greece · Mw 6.3
Greece · 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 1420 Thessaloniki earthquake (Mw 6.5) (1420 CE) happen?: July, 1420 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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