1694 Italy earthquake (Mw 4.6) (1694 CE)

Name: 1694 Italy earthquake (Mw 4.6) (1694 CE)
Start: 1694
Location: Italy

Type:: Earthquake
Date:: January, 1694 CE
Location:: Italy
Magnitude:: 4.63 Mw

Cross-catalog records

This event is recorded in 4 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):

EMEC_2021: Mw 4.63
EMEC_2021: Mw 5.4
AHEAD: Mw 5.38
AHEAD: Mw 4.65

Other earthquake records of 1694 CE

Italy, Calitri · 4,057 deaths
Japan, Ugo · 394 deaths
Switzerland · Mw 3.9
Switzerland · Mw 3.9
Italy · Mw 5.4
Taiwan, Taibei (Taipei) · Ms 5.5

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 1694 Italy earthquake (Mw 4.6) (1694 CE) happen?: January, 1694 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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