What the records say
- When
- 6 Feb 1783
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 5.9
- Where
- Italy
- Coordinates
- 38.22° N, 15.63° E
- Deaths
- 1500
- Intensity mmi
- 8
- Depth km
- 6
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1783 Calabrian earthquakes
5 earthquakes in southern Italy
Five strong earthquakes hit Calabria, a region of the Kingdom of Naples, in 1783. The first two 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. The epicenter of the first earthquake occurred in the plain of Palmi.
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2 sources record it
- 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 — Calabria meridionale-Messina”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0Source page
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