- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 26, 1839 CE
- Location:
- France
- Magnitude:
- 4.3 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 4.3
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.2
- EMEC_2021: Mw 3.9
- AHEAD: Mw 3.46
- AHEAD: Mw 4.7
Other earthquake records of 1839 CE
- Myanmar (Burma), Ava, Amarapura · 400 deaths
- Martinique, Fort-De-France, St Pierre, Castries · M 7.8 · 390 deaths
- China, Yunnan Province · Ms 6 · 129 deaths
- Taiwan, Jiayi · Ms 6.5 · 117 deaths
- China, Yunnan Province · Ms 6 · 100 deaths
- Venezuela, Cumana
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 1839 France earthquake (Mw 4.3) (1839 CE) happen?
- March 26, 1839 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.