1521 Serbia / Montenegro earthquake (Mw 5.6) (1521 CE)

Earthquake · Serbia / Montenegro · 1521 CE

Type:
Earthquake
Date:
1521 CE
Location:
Serbia / Montenegro
Magnitude:
5.61 Mw
Depth:
24 km

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 5.61
  • AHEAD: Mw 5.11

Other earthquake records of 1521 CE

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 1521 Serbia / Montenegro earthquake (Mw 5.6) (1521 CE) happen?
1521 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.

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