- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- July 31, 1561 CE
- Location:
- Italy
- Magnitude:
- 5.56 Mw
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):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.56
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.34
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.72
- AHEAD: Mw 6.75
Other earthquake records of 1561 CE
- China, Ningxia: E Of Zhongwei · Ms 7.3 · 1,001 deaths
- Italy, Picerno, Tito, Buccino · 600 deaths
- Italy · Mw 6.34
- Hungary · Mw 5.33
- Italy, Vallo Di Diano
- China, Shaanxi, Gansu, And Shanxi Provinces
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 1561 Italy earthquake (Mw 5.6) (1561 CE) happen?
- July 31, 1561 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.