- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- April 20, 1706 CE
- Location:
- North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland
- Magnitude:
- 6.8 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 6.8
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 6
Other earthquake records of 1706 CE
- Italy, Sulmona To Campobasso, Abruzzi · 1,000 deaths
- Italy · Mw 4.76
- Austria · Mw 3.93
- Switzerland · Mw 3.9
- France · Mw 4.9
- Iceland, Selfoss
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 1706 North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland earthquake (Mw 6.8) (1706 CE) happen?
- April 20, 1706 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.