- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- June 1, 1296 CE
- Location:
- Istanbul
- Magnitude:
- 6.02 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 6.02
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 5.18
Other earthquake records of 1296 CE
- Turkey, Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Turkey · Mw 7.06
- Turkey · Mw 6.8
- Bergama · Mw 6.91
- Istanbul TR · Mw 5.18
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 1296 Istanbul earthquake (Mw 6.0) (1296 CE) happen?
- June 1, 1296 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.