- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January 7, 1690 CE
- Location:
- Romania
- Magnitude:
- 3.53 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 2 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 3.53
- AHEAD: Mw 3.8
Other earthquake records of 1690 CE
- Turkey, Istanbul (Constantinople) · 20 deaths
- Austria, Carinthie · 20 deaths
- Italy, Ancona · M 5.6 · 10 deaths
- Turkey · Mw 6.4
- Indonesia, South Maluku
- Antigua, Saint Kitts And Nevis · Ms 8
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 1690 Romania earthquake (Mw 3.5) (1690 CE) happen?
- January 7, 1690 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.