1571 Romania earthquake (Mw 3.5) (1571 CE)

Name: 1571 Romania earthquake (Mw 3.5) (1571 CE)
Start: 1571
Location: Romania

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: May 14, 1571 CE
Location:: Romania
Magnitude:: 3.53 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 3.53
EMEC_2021: Mw 7.1
EMEC_2021: Mw 4.7
AHEAD: Mw 5.11
AHEAD: Mw 3.8
AHEAD: Mw 4.46

Other earthquake records of 1571 CE

Azores, Terceira
Romania · Mw 4.7
Hungary · Mw 3.53
Hungary · Mw 3.53
Romania · Mw 7.1
China, Yunnan Province: Tonghai · Ms 6

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 1571 Romania earthquake (Mw 3.5) (1571 CE) happen?: May 14, 1571 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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