- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- February 4, 1169 CE
- Location:
- Sicilia orientale
- Magnitude:
- 6.48 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 6.48
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.5
Other earthquake records of 1169 CE
- Syria, Halab (Aleppo), Dimashq (Damascus) · 80,000 deaths
- Italy, Sicily: Siracusa (Syracuse), Calabria · 16,000 deaths
- Spain · Mw 6.06
- Italy · Mw 6.5
- France · Mw 4.3
- Angers · Mw 4.67
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 1169 Sicilia orientale earthquake (Mw 6.5) (1169 CE) happen?
- February 4, 1169 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.