What the records say
- When
- 8 Sep 1905
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.1
- Where
- Italy
- Coordinates
- 38.67° N, 16.07° E
- Deaths
- 557
- Injuries
- 2000
- Houses destroyed
- 6700
- Intensity mmi
- 11
- Depth km
- 15
3 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 7.2 Calabria earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un tremblement de terre en Calabre attire l’attention du pays sur les conditions du Midi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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