- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 21, 1708 CE
- Location:
- France
- Magnitude:
- 3.5 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 3.5
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.1
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.6
- AHEAD: Mw 4.49
- AHEAD: Mw 5.12
Other earthquake records of 1708 CE
- Tokaido, Japan · Ms 7
- Indonesia, Banda Sea
- Italy · Mw 5.56
- Italy · Mw 4.86
- France · Mw 5.3
- France, Manosque
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 1708 France earthquake (Mw 3.5) (1708 CE) happen?
- March 21, 1708 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.