- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- September 23, 1063 CE
- Location:
- Sea of Marmara
- Magnitude:
- 7.15 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 7.15
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.46
Other earthquake records of 1063 CE
- Lebanon, Tarabulus (Tripolis), Tyre, Turkey, Iraq
- Turkey, Istanbul, Trakya, Erdek, Iznik
- SE Mediterranean area · Mw 6.77
- Turkey · Mw 7.46
- Istanbul
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 1063 Sea of Marmara earthquake (Mw 7.2) (1063 CE) happen?
- September 23, 1063 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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