- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- May 3, 1875 CE
- Location:
- Dinar-Afyonkarahisar
- Magnitude:
- 6.77 Mw
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):
- AHEAD: Mw 6.77
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 7.3
- NOAA_SIGEQ: M 6.1
- AHEAD: Mw 5.82
Other earthquake records of 1875 CE
- Turkey, Capali, Dinar, Civril, Yaka · Ms 7.3 · 1,300 deaths
- Colombia, Cucuta, San Cayetano, Villa Del Rosario · Ms 7.5 · 1,001 deaths
- New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands: Lifou Island · Mw 8.1 · 26 deaths
- Mexico, San Cristobal De La Barranca · M 7.5 · 25 deaths
- Indonesia, W Java: Kuningan · 7 deaths
- Greece, Kyparissia (Messinia)
Source: Albini, P., Locati, M., Rovida, A. & Stucchi, M. (2013): European Archive of Historical Earthquake Data (AHEAD), INGV, doi:10.6092/ingv.it-ahead · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 1875 Dinar-Afyonkarahisar earthquake (Mw 6.8) (1875 CE) happen?
- May 3, 1875 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Albini, P., Locati, M., Rovida, A. & Stucchi, M. (2013): European Archive of Historical Earthquake Data (AHEAD), INGV, doi:10.6092/ingv.it-ahead; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.