What the records say
- When
- 26 Oct 1802
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.4
- Where
- Romania
- Coordinates
- 45.70° N, 26.60° E
- Intensity mmi
- 10
- Depth km
- 150
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1802 Vrancea earthquake
Most powerful earthquake in Romanian history
The 1802 Vrancea earthquake occurred in the Vrancea Mountains of today's Romania on 26 October [O.S. 14 October] 1802, on St. Paraskeva's Day. With an estimated intensity of 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale, it is the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Romania and one of the strongest in European history.
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3 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 — [Vrancea deep]”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A powerful 7.9 earthquake shakes the Romanian district of Vrancea destroying hundreds of buildings, triggering landslides and killing 4 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page