- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- December, 1815 CE
- Location:
- Greece
- Magnitude:
- 6.8 Mw
- Depth:
- 0 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 3 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.8
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 6.25
Other earthquake records of 1815 CE
- China, Shanxi Province · Ms 6.8 · 13,000 deaths
- Indonesia, Bali · Mw 7.3 · 11,453 deaths
- Taiwan · Ms 6.5 · 111 deaths
- Greece, Crete
- Mexico, Oaxaca, Tamazulapan
- Greece, Ionian Islands: Lefkas
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 1815 Greece earthquake (Mw 6.8) (1815 CE) happen?
- December, 1815 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.