- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- November 25, 1941 CE
- Location:
- East Atlantic Ocean and the Canaries
- Magnitude:
- 8.3 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 8.3
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 7.8
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 7.84
Other earthquake records of 1941 CE
- Yemen, Razih · Ms 5.9 · 1,200 deaths
- Iran, Mohammadabad · Mw 6.3 · 730 deaths
- Turkey, Van, Ercis · Mw 6 · 430 deaths
- Taiwan · M 7.1 · 319 deaths
- China, Heilongjiang Province · Ms 6 · 132 deaths
- Mexico, Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco · Mw 7.6 · 84 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 1941 East Atlantic Ocean and the Canaries earthquake (Mw 8.3) (1941 CE) happen?
- November 25, 1941 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.