- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January, 1758 CE
- Location:
- SE Mediterranean (EMEC kodu, Tn)
- Magnitude:
- 6.96 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 6.96
- NOAA_SIGEQ
Other earthquake records of 1758 CE
- Tunisia, Tunis, Constantine · 3,000 deaths
- Azores, Luz
- Portugal · Mw 3.96
- Fennoscandia, Baltics, Kola Peninsula and adjacent waters · Mw 3.69
- Finland · Mw 3.56
- Russian North · Mw 4.13
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 1758 SE Mediterranean (EMEC kodu: TN) earthquake (Mw 7.0) (1758 CE) happen?
- January, 1758 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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