- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- April 22, 1846 CE
- Location:
- Italy
- Magnitude:
- 4.94 Mw
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 4.94
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 4.96
Other earthquake records of 1846 CE
- Italy, Orciano, Luciana · Ms 6.1 · 56 deaths
- Greece, Messini-Micromani (Messinia) · 30 deaths
- Italy, Siracusa (Syracuse)
- India · M 7.5
- Indonesia, N. Moluccas Islands · Ms 7.3
- Peru · Ms 7.9
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 1846 Italy earthquake (Mw 4.9) (1846 CE) happen?
- April 22, 1846 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.