What the records say
- When
- 5 Dec 1456
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Where
- Italy
- Coordinates
- 40.40° N, 14.50° E
- Deaths
- 30000
- Intensity mmi
- 11
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1456 Central Italy earthquakes
Earthquakes in Italy
On December 5, 1456, the largest earthquake to occur on the Italian Peninsula in historical times struck the Kingdom of Naples. The earthquake had an estimated moment magnitude of Mw 7.19–7.4, and was centred near the town of Pontelandolfo in the present-day Province of Benevento, southern Italy.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A 7.4 magnitude earthquake (estimated subsequently by geologists), the first of two on the Italian peninsula”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 7,4 sacude Nápoles dejando un saldo de 70.000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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