1655 Germany earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1655 CE)

Name: 1655 Germany earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1655 CE)
Start: 1655
Location: Germany

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: April 11, 1655 CE
Location:: Germany
Magnitude:: 4.2 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 4.2
EMEC_2021: Mw 4.61
EMEC_2021: Mw 4.2
EMEC_2021: Mw 4.61
AHEAD: Mw 4.24
AHEAD: Mw 3.15

Other earthquake records of 1655 CE

Peru, Lima, Callao · Ms 7.7
Italy · Mw 4.86
Germany · Mw 4.61
Italy · Mw 4.63
Germany · Mw 4.2
Greece, Crete

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 1655 Germany earthquake (Mw 4.2) (1655 CE) happen?: April 11, 1655 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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