- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- August 3, 1622 CE
- Location:
- Switzerland
- Magnitude:
- 5.4 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 4 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.4
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 5.16
Other earthquake records of 1622 CE
- China, Ningxia: Pingliang, Longde · Ms 7 · 12,000 deaths
- Switzerland
- Switzerland
- Mexico, Zacatecas
- France · Mw 3.9
- Greece, S
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 1622 Switzerland earthquake (Mw 5.4) (1622 CE) happen?
- August 3, 1622 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.