- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January 2, 1842 CE
- Location:
- Caucasus
- Magnitude:
- 4.7 Mw
- Depth:
- 3 km
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 4.7
- NOAA_SIGEQ: M 4.3
Other earthquake records of 1842 CE
- Haiti, Cap-Haitien · Mw 8 · 5,300 deaths
- Afghanistan, Jalalabad · 500 deaths
- Greece, Maina (Laconia)
- China, Xinjiang Province · Ms 7
- Ethiopia, Ankober
- Azerbaijan, Apscheron Peninsula · M 4.3
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 1842 Caucasus earthquake (Mw 4.7) (1842 CE) happen?
- January 2, 1842 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.