- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January 11, 1693 CE
- Location:
- Eastern Sicily, Italy
- Magnitude:
- 7.4 Mfa
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- USGS_COMCAT: Mfa 7.4
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 7.4
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.07
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.32
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.63
Other earthquake records of 1693 CE
- Italy, Sicily, Calabria, Catania · Ms 6 · 60,000 deaths
- Italy, Sicily, Calabria · Mw 7.4 · 54,000 deaths
- Italy · Mw 7.32
- Italy · Mw 6.07
- Italy · Mw 5.27
- Cuba, Havana
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Comprehensive Catalog (ComCat) · License: U.S. Public Domain (USGS) · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did M 7.4 - Eastern Sicily, Italy (1693 CE) happen?
- January 11, 1693 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from U.S. Geological Survey, Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) Comprehensive Catalog (ComCat); it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.