Earthquake — Italy: Campania, Potenza

When

16 Dec 1857

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.5

Where

Italy

Coordinates

40.30° N, 16.00° E

Deaths

10000

Intensity mmi

10

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Earthquake in Italy

The 1857 Basilicata earthquake occurred on 16 December in the Basilicata region of Italy southeast of the city of Naples. The epicentre was in Montemurro, on the western border of the modern province of Potenza. Several towns were destroyed, and there were around 11,000 fatalities according to official sources, but unofficial estimates suggest that as many as 19,000 died.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• EPICA v1.1, European preinstrumental earthquakes 1000–1899 (Rovida & Antonucci 2021)INGV · names it “Earthquake — Basilicata”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 7.0 Basilicata earthquake shakes the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Southern Italy) with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la provincia de Basilicata (sur de Italia), un terremoto de 6,9 causa la muerte de más de 11 000 personas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page