- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- April 4, 1640 CE
- Location:
- Belgium and Luxembourg
- Magnitude:
- 5.05 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 5.05
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 5.48
Other earthquake records of 1640 CE
- Ecuador · 5,000 deaths
- Japan, Uchiura Bay · Ms 6.5 · 700 deaths
- Italy, Badolato · 300 deaths
- Germany, Roer Valley
- China, Guangdong Province
- Iran, Tabriz · M 5.1
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 1640 Belgium and Luxembourg earthquake (Mw 5.0) (1640 CE) happen?
- April 4, 1640 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.