- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- October 10, 1482 CE
- Location:
- Spain
- Magnitude:
- 5.76 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 5.76
- AHEAD: Mw 5.9
Other earthquake records of 1482 CE
- Turkey, Erzincan, Erzurum · M 7.5 · 30,000 deaths
- Balkans Nw, Croatia
- Iran, Hormoz, Oman · M 6.5
- Turkey · Mw 7.02
- Orihuela · Mw 5.9
- Ragusa · Mw 4.72
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 1482 Spain earthquake (Mw 5.8) (1482 CE) happen?
- October 10, 1482 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.