- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- February 15, 1657 CE
- Location:
- France
- Magnitude:
- 5.7 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 5.7
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 5.02
Other earthquake records of 1657 CE
- Peru, Lima, Callao · 11,000 deaths
- Chile, Concepcion, Chillan · Ms 8 · 40 deaths
- Chile, Santiago
- Indonesia, Banda Sea
- China, Sichuan Province · Ms 6
- Italy · Mw 5.96
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 1657 France earthquake (Mw 5.7) (1657 CE) happen?
- February 15, 1657 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.