- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- April 3, 1868 CE
- Location:
- The 1868 Great K`au, Hawaii Earthquake
- Magnitude:
- 7.9 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 7.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mfa 7.9
- USGS_COMCAT: Mint 6.1
- USGS_COMCAT: Mfa 7
- USGS_COMCAT: Mint 6.1
- USGS_COMCAT: Mint 6.1
Other earthquake records of 1868 CE
- Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ibarra, Colombia: San Pablo · Ms 7.7 · 70,000 deaths
- Chile, Arica · Ms 8.5 · 25,000 deaths
- Hawaii, Se Of · Mfa 7.9 · 77 deaths
- California, Hayward, San Francisco · ML 6.8 · 30 deaths
- Mexico, San Jose De Iturbide, Puebla, Veracruz
- Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Kazakhstan: Turkestan · M 6.5
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 7.9 - The 1868 Great K`au, Hawaii Earthquake (1868 CE) happen?
- April 3, 1868 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.