- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- August 20, 2009 CE
- Location:
- North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland
- Magnitude:
- 4.46 Mw
- Depth:
- 15 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 4 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.46
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.02
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.46
- USGS_COMCAT: Mwc 6
Other earthquake records of 2009 CE
- Indonesia, Sumatra: Padang · Mw 7.5 · 1,117 deaths
- Italy, L'aquila · Mw 6.3 · 309 deaths
- Samoa Islands · Mw 8.1 · 192 deaths
- Indonesia, Java · Mw 7 · 81 deaths
- Costa Rica, La Paz · Mw 6.1 · 23 deaths
- Afghanistan, Nangarhar · Mb 5.4 · 19 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 2009 North Atlantic Ocean and Iceland earthquake (Mw 4.5) (2009 CE) happen?
- August 20, 2009 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.