- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- May, 1641 CE
- Location:
- Bulgaria
- Magnitude:
- 6.85 Mw
- Depth:
- 18 km
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 6.85
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 6.36
Other earthquake records of 1641 CE
- Iran, Tabriz, Kurdistan · 30,000 deaths
- Ecuador · M 7.6
- Philippines, Luzon: Aparri
- Venezuela, Caracas, La Guaira, Cua
- China, Guangdong Province · Ms 5.8
- Bulgaria
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 1641 Bulgaria earthquake (Mw 6.8) (1641 CE) happen?
- May, 1641 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.