- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- February 5, 1783 CE
- Location:
- Italy
- Magnitude:
- 7.1 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 7.1
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 5.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 5.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.9
- NOAA_SIGEQ
Other earthquake records of 1783 CE
- Italy, Tyrrhenian Calabria · Ms 6.9 · 30,000 deaths
- Italy, Messina Straits · Ms 5.9 · 1,500 deaths
- Greece, Lefkada · Mw 6.5 · 60 deaths
- Italy, Tyrrhenian Calabria
- Italy, Tyrrhenian Calabria · Ms 5.9
- Dominican Republic, Santiago De Los Caballeros
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 1783 Italy earthquake (Mw 7.1) (1783 CE) happen?
- February 5, 1783 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.