- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- January 22, 1910 CE
- Location:
- North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland
- Magnitude:
- 7.61 Mw
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 7.61
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 6.98
Other earthquake records of 1910 CE
- Costa Rica, Cartago, San Jose · Ms 6.4 · 700 deaths
- Taiwan · Ms 7.8 · 60 deaths
- Algeria, Masqueray, Kabylia · Ms 6.4 · 12 deaths
- Japan, Honshu: S. Of · Ms 7.4
- Costa Rica, Cartago · Ms 5.8
- China, Yellow Sea · Ms 6.8
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 1910 North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland earthquake (Mw 7.6) (1910 CE) happen?
- January 22, 1910 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.