- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- 1169 CE
- Location:
- Spain
- Magnitude:
- 6.06 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):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.06
- AHEAD: Mw 5.85
Other earthquake records of 1169 CE
- Syria, Halab (Aleppo), Dimashq (Damascus) · 80,000 deaths
- Italy, Sicily: Siracusa (Syracuse), Calabria · 16,000 deaths
- Italy · Mw 6.5
- France · Mw 4.3
- Angers · Mw 4.67
- Sicilia orientale · Mw 6.48
Source: Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001 · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 1169 Spain earthquake (Mw 6.1) (1169 CE) happen?
- 1169 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.