January 21, 1065 Earthquake: Catania,messina,milazzo,pale, Sicily, Italy

Date

January 21, 1065

Place

Catania,messina,milazzo,pale, Sicily, Italy

Intensity

10 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

38.100° N, 15.100° E

Country

Italy

Deaths

975

Damage

Severe (about $5 to $25 million)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

• December 28, 1908, Messina, Sicily, Calabria, ItalyM7 · 80,000 deaths · $116 million · 43 km
• January 9, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, Catania, ItalyM6 · 60,000 deaths · 972 houses destroyed · 85 km
• January 11, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, ItalyM7.4 · 54,000 deaths · 108 km
• February 5, 1783, Tyrrhenian Calabria, ItalyM6.9 · 30,000 deaths · 79 km
• February 4, 1169, Siracusa (Syracuse), Calabria, Sicily, Italy16,000 deaths · 89 km
• 1137, Catania, Sicily, Italy15,000 deaths · 89 km
• August 6, 1757, Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy10,000 deaths · 123 km
• September 16, 1857, Calabria,montemurro, Italy10,000 deaths · 183 km
• March 27, 1638, Cosenza,martirano, Nicastro, Calabria, ItalyM7 · 9,581 deaths · 146 km
• November 5, 1659, Panaija, Soriano, Polia, Italy2,035 deaths · 124 km
• February 6, 1783, Messina Straits, ItalyM5.9 · 1,500 deaths · 48 km
• 1086, Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy1,000 deaths · 124 km
• September 8, 1905, Monteleone, Tropea, Monte Poro, ItalyM7.1 · 557 deaths · 6,700 houses destroyed · 106 km
• February 12, 1854, Connici,cosenza,pietrafitta,paterno, Italy468 deaths · 169 km
• June 19, 1640, Badolato, Italy300 deaths · 135 km

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