191 km N of Valletta, Malta / pop: 6,800 / local time: 03:19:16.7 2018-12-26
175 km E of Palermo, Italy / pop: 673,000 / local time: 03:19:16.7 2018-12-26
10 km E of Catania, Italy / pop: 314,000 / local time: 03:19:16.7 2018-12-26
5 km SE of Acitrezza, Italy / pop: 5,000 / local time: 03:19:16.7 2018-12-26
For more information on computation, see the article Bossu et al., 2016:
Thumbnail Based Questionnaires for the Rapid and Efficient Collection of Macroseismic Data from Global Earthquakes, Rémy Bossu, Matthieu Landès, Fréderic Roussel, Robert Steed, Gilles Mazet-Roux, Stacey S. Martin, and Susan Hough. Seismological Research Letter. Oct 2016. doi: 10.1785/0220160120;
Furthermore, to avoid the association with wrong events, we filter testimonies in distance and in intensity depending on the magnitude of the seismic event.
References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Coffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M., and Lawver, L.A., 1998, Present-day Plate Boundary Digital Data Compilation. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report No. 174, pp. 5.
Maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area .
Regional instrumental seismicity
This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.
Regional deadly earthquakes from 1500 to origin time
Date
Long.
Lat.
Mag.
Death
Location
1542-12-10
15.0
37.2
6.0
200
SICILY, ITALY
1613-08-25
14.8
38.1
5.4
103
SICILY, ITALY
1626-04-04
16.5
38.9
6.0
37
SOUTHERN ITALY
1638-03-27
16.3
39.1
6.9
30000
SOUTHERN ITALY
1659-11-05
16.3
38.7
6.4
2035
SOUTHERN ITALY
1693-01-09
15.0
37.1
6.2
many
SICILY, ITALY
1693-01-11
15.0
37.1
7.4
54000
SICILY, ITALY
1726-09-01
13.4
38.1
5.7
250
SICILY, ITALY
1767-07-14
16.3
39.4
5.6
many
SOUTHERN ITALY
1783-02-05
16.0
38.4
6.9
35000
SOUTHERN ITALY
1818-02-20
15.1
37.6
6.2
72
SICILY, ITALY
1832-03-08
16.9
39.1
6.5
234
SOUTHERN ITALY
1835-10-12
16.3
39.3
5.9
115
SOUTHERN ITALY
1836-04-25
16.7
39.6
6.3
239
SOUTHERN ITALY
1854-02-12
16.3
39.3
6.1
472
SOUTHERN ITALY
1865-07-19
15.5
37.7
5.3
74
SICILY, ITALY
1870-10-04
16.3
39.2
6.1
117
SOUTHERN ITALY
1894-11-16
15.9
38.3
6.2
101
SICILY, ITALY
1905-09-08
16.1
38.7
6.8
557
SOUTHERN ITALY
1907-10-23
16.0
38.1
6.0
167
SOUTHERN ITALY
1908-12-28
15.7
38.2
7.1
82000
SICILY, ITALY
1914-05-08
15.1
37.7
5.5
69
SICILY, ITALY
1968-01-15
13.0
37.8
6.5
231
SICILY, ITALY
2002-09-06
13.7
38.3
5.9
2
SICILY, ITALY
Source:
From 1500 to 1999: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718
Italian National Seismic Network Roma, Italy
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