- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- August 16, 1784 CE
- Location:
- North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland
- Magnitude:
- 7.32 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 5 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.32
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.61
- AHEAD: Mw 6.7
- AHEAD: Mw 7.1
Other earthquake records of 1784 CE
- Turkey, Erzurum, Erzincan · 5,000 deaths
- Peru, Arequipa, Camana, Moquegua, Tambo · Ms 8 · 383 deaths
- Iceland, Southland, Arnessysla, Bangar, Sysla
- Haiti, Petit Goave, Leogane, Port-Au-Prince
- Mexico, Oaxaca
- Mexico, Guerrero, Acapulco
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 1784 North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland earthquake (Mw 7.3) (1784 CE) happen?
- August 16, 1784 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.