- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 21, 1734 CE
- Location:
- North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland
- Magnitude:
- 7.39 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 7.39
- AHEAD: Mw 6.8
Other earthquake records of 1734 CE
- United Kingdom, Ireland
- Iceland, Southern Lowland
- Austria · Mw 3.93
- Romania · Mw 5.2
- United Kingdom and adjacent waters · Mw 4.2
- Portsmouth · Mw 4.09
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 1734 North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland earthquake (Mw 7.4) (1734 CE) happen?
- March 21, 1734 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.