- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January 19, 1833 CE
- Location:
- Albania
- Magnitude:
- 6.66 Mw
- Depth:
- 33 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 6.66
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.4
- AHEAD
Other earthquake records of 1833 CE
- China, Yunnan Province · Ms 8 · 6,700 deaths
- Peru-Chile, Peru: Tacna, Chile: Arica · Ms 7.7 · 700 deaths
- Nepal, Kathmandu, India: Bihar, China: Tibet · Mw 7.7 · 500 deaths
- Japan, Honshu: Nw · Ms 7.4 · 85 deaths
- India, Lohughar · Ms 7.5
- Chile
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 1833 Albania earthquake (Mw 6.7) (1833 CE) happen?
- January 19, 1833 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.