- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- October, 1750 CE
- Location:
- Bulgaria
- Magnitude:
- 6.47 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 6.47
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 6.33
Other earthquake records of 1750 CE
- Greece, Morea, Cerigo · 2,000 deaths
- China, Yunnan Province · Ms 6 · 37 deaths
- Balkans Nw, Croatia: Rijeka (Fiume)
- Bulgaria, Plovdiv
- France, Tarbes, Lourdes
- Mexico, Colima, Guadalajara, Mexico City
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 1750 Bulgaria earthquake (Mw 6.5) (1750 CE) happen?
- October, 1750 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.