- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- February 14, 1672 CE
- Location:
- Turkey
- Magnitude:
- 7.06 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 7.06
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 7.05
Other earthquake records of 1672 CE
- Italy, Rimini · Ms 5.6 · 1,500 deaths
- E. Sporades Islands, Aegean Islands
- Switzerland · Mw 3.9
- Italy · Mw 5.59
- Italy · Mw 5.33
- Greece, Dodecanese Islands
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 1672 Turkey earthquake (Mw 7.1) (1672 CE) happen?
- February 14, 1672 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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