- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- August 14, 1574 CE
- Location:
- Croatia
- Magnitude:
- 5.68 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 5.68
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 5.57
Other earthquake records of 1574 CE
- Iran, Fin, Kashan · 1,200 deaths
- Switzerland
- Balkans Nw, Croatia
- Switzerland · Mw 3.9
- Italy · Mw 4.63
- Germany · Mw 4.61
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 1574 Croatia earthquake (Mw 5.7) (1574 CE) happen?
- August 14, 1574 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.