Earthquake — Italy: Tyrrhenian Calabria

When

5 Feb 1783

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.9

Where

Italy

Coordinates

38.30° N, 15.97° E

Deaths

30000

Intensity mmi

11

Depth km

13

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

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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• 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”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1783 Calabrian earthquakes: The first of a sequence of five earthquakes strikes Calabria, Italy (February 5–7, March 1 & 28), leaving 50,000 dead”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Eine Serie von Erdbeben beginnt, die Messina und besonders Teile Kalabriens heimsucht”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un tremblement de terre fait victimes en Calabre en Italie”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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