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Map of earthquakes in Italy 1900-2017 Earthquakes M5.5+ (1900–2016) Mediterranean. This is a list of earthquakes in Italy that had epicentres in Italy, or significantly affected the country. On average every four years an earthquake with a magnitude equal to or greater than 5.5 occurs in Italy. [1]
Local date: 11 January 1693 (): Local time: 21:00 [1] [2]: Duration: 4 minutes: Magnitude: 7.4 M w: Epicenter: 3] The exact location of the epicentre remains uncertain: Areas affected: Southern Italy, notably Sicily, and Malta [4]: Max. intensity: MMI XI (Extreme) [5]: Tsunami: 5–10-metre high waves devastated the coastal villages on the Ionian Sea and in the Straits of Messina. (Ambraseys ...
1349 Apennine earthquakes; 1456 Central Italy earthquakes; 1511 Idrija earthquake; 1570 Ferrara earthquake; 1626 Girifalco earthquake; 1627 Gargano earthquake; 1638 Calabrian earthquakes; 1639 Amatrice earthquake; 1659 Calabria earthquake; 1688 Sannio earthquake; 1693 Sicily earthquake; 1694 Irpinia–Basilicata earthquake; 1703 Apennine ...
Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings – later followed by seismotomography imaging technique, [1] observations using space satellites from outer space, [2] artificial intelligence (AI)-based early earthquake warnings [3] – they rely mainly ...
The 1980 Irpinia earthquake (Italian: Terremoto dell'Irpinia) took place in Italy on 23 November 1980, with a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). It left at least 2,483 people dead, at least 7,700 injured, and 250,000 homeless .
Messina earthquake seismogram The port of Messina in c. 1900, before the earthquake and tsunami. On Monday, 28 December 1908, at 5:20:27 [12] an earthquake of 7.1 on the moment magnitude scale occurred. [13] Its epicentre was in the Strait of Messina which separates the busy port city of Messina in Sicily and Reggio Calabria on the Italian ...
The 1930 Irpinia earthquake occurred at 00:08 UTC on 23 July, chiefly in an area known as Irpinia. It had a surface-wave magnitude of 6.6 and a maximum intensity of X (Very destructive). The event caused 1,404 deaths and 4,624–7,000 injuries. The epicenter was near the boundaries between the regions of Basilicata, Apulia, and Campania.
The 1783 Calabrian earthquakes were a sequence of five strong earthquakes that hit the region of Calabria in southern Italy (then part of the Kingdom of Naples), the first two of which produced significant tsunamis. The epicenters form a clear alignment extending nearly 100 km from the Straits of Messina to about 18 km SSW of Catanzaro.