- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- December 25, 1222 CE
- Location:
- Basso bresciano
- Magnitude:
- 5.74 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 5.74
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.68
Other earthquake records of 1222 CE
- Italy, Brescia · 12,000 deaths
- Cyprus
- Cyprus · Mw 6.77
- Italy · Mw 5.68
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 1222 Basso bresciano earthquake (Mw 5.7) (1222 CE) happen?
- December 25, 1222 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.