- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 16, 1956 CE
- Location:
- SE Mediterranean area
- Magnitude:
- 6.14 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 5 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.14
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.98
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.6
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 5.32
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 5.5
Other earthquake records of 1956 CE
- Iran, Bastak · Mw 6.4 · 410 deaths
- India, Anjar, Bhuj, Gandhidham, Kandla · Mw 6 · 156 deaths
- Lebanon, Litani · M 5.8 · 148 deaths
- Afghanistan, Kabul · M 7.6 · 100 deaths
- Greece, Dodecanese · Mw 7.7 · 56 deaths
- Myanmar (Burma) · Mw 6.8 · 38 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 1956 SE Mediterranean area earthquake (Mw 6.1) (1956 CE) happen?
- March 16, 1956 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.
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