Earthquake — Austria: Kamp River

When

15 Sep 1590

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.6

Where

Austria

Coordinates

48.30° N, 15.50° E

Intensity mmi

10

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Destructive earthquake in 16th-century Austria

The Neulengbach earthquake of 1590 occurred on 15 September shortly before midnight amidst a long series of much weaker seismic activity starting on 29 June and with aftershocks reported until 12 November. It was the strongest historically documented earthquake in what today is Northeastern Austria.

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