- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- May 23, 1940 CE
- Location:
- Caucasus
- Magnitude:
- 4.5 Mw
- Depth:
- 11 km
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 4.5
- NOAA_SIGEQ: M 6
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.09
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.8
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.89
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.5
Other earthquake records of 1940 CE
- Romania · M 7.3 · 1,000 deaths
- China, Yunnan Province · Ms 6 · 181 deaths
- Peru · Mw 8.2 · 179 deaths
- Turkey, Kayseri, Develi · 37 deaths
- Turkey-Cis · M 6 · 16 deaths
- Japan, W. Hokkaido Island · Ms 7.5 · 10 deaths
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 1940 Caucasus earthquake (Mw 4.5) (1940 CE) happen?
- May 23, 1940 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.