- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 21, 1813 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 3.46
Other earthquake records of 1813 CE
- Peru, Ica · 32 deaths
- Romania · Mw 5.9
- France · Mw 5
- Switzerland · Mw 3.9
- France · Mw 4.3
- Iran, Shiraz
Press of the period
Archive newspaper issues published within a few days of this event. These issues may not report the event itself; they offer a direct window onto the press of the period.
- North Wales gazetteMarch 18, 1813open in archive ↗
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 1813 United Kingdom and adjacent waters earthquake (Mw 3.6) (1813 CE) happen?
- March 21, 1813 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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