- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- October 18, 1343 CE
- Location:
- Constantinople
- 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: Ms 7.5
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.06
Other earthquake records of 1343 CE
- Balkans Nw, Croatia
- China, Hunan Province: Nan Pi Tsin Nan
- Turkey, Istanbul (Constantinople) · Ms 7.5
- SE Mediterranean area · Mw 6.52
- Croatia · Mw 6.48
- Turkey · Mw 6.96
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 1343 Constantinople earthquake (Mw 6.6) (1343 CE) happen?
- October 18, 1343 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.