- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- February 26, 1770 CE
- Location:
- United Kingdom and adjacent waters
- Magnitude:
- 3.57 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 3.57
- AHEAD: Mw 3.36
Other earthquake records of 1770 CE
- Haiti, Port-Au-Prince · Mw 7.5 · 200 deaths
- Philippines, Manila
- Japan, Morioka · M 7.4
- China, Yunnan Province · Ms 5.5
- Indonesia, Sumatra: · Ms 7
- Greece, St Maura · Mw 6.2
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 1770 United Kingdom and adjacent waters earthquake (Mw 3.6) (1770 CE) happen?
- February 26, 1770 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.