- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- October 18, 1843 CE
- Location:
- Greece
- Magnitude:
- 6.6 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 6.6
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 5.9
- AHEAD: Mw 6.47
Other earthquake records of 1843 CE
- Guadeloupe, Pointe-A-Pitre · M 8.3 · 5,000 deaths
- Iran, Khvoy (Khoy) · 1,000 deaths
- Japan, Hokkaido: Yezo, Kushiro, Nemuro · Ms 8.4 · 45 deaths
- India, Deccan
- New Zealand, Wanganui · Ms 7.5
- Iran, Azarbaijan: Khvoy (Khoy)
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 1843 Greece earthquake (Mw 6.6) (1843 CE) happen?
- October 18, 1843 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.