- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- November 17, 1570 CE
- Location:
- Italy
- Magnitude:
- 5.44 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 3 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.44
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 5.43
Other earthquake records of 1570 CE
- Chile, Old Concepcion · Ms 8.3 · 2,000 deaths
- Italy, Ferrara, Bologna, Padova, Venizia, Treviso · 125 deaths
- Oman, Qalhat · Mw 7
- Italy · Mw 3.5
- France · Mw 3.8
- France · Mw 4.2
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 1570 Italy earthquake (Mw 5.4) (1570 CE) happen?
- November 17, 1570 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.