1086 Earthquake: Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy

Date

1086

Place

Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

37.000° N, 15.300° E

Country

Italy

Region

Southern Europe

Deaths

1,000

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.

1. #1151 Magnaki, D.V. (1688). Historical Information on Earthquakes Having Occurred in the Past Centuries and Present Century, translated by R.M. Davis, Jr. (1945), Antonio Bulifon, Naples, Italy.

• December 28, 1908, Messina, Sicily, Calabria, ItalyM7 · 80,000 deaths · $116 million · 132 km
• January 9, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, Catania, ItalyM6 · 60,000 deaths · 972 houses destroyed · 39 km
• January 11, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, ItalyM7.4 · 54,000 deaths · 29 km
• February 5, 1783, Tyrrhenian Calabria, ItalyM6.9 · 30,000 deaths · 156 km
• February 4, 1169, Siracusa (Syracuse), Calabria, Sicily, Italy16,000 deaths · 41 km
• 1137, Catania, Sicily, Italy15,000 deaths · 38 km
• August 6, 1757, Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy10,000 deaths · 27 km
• February 6, 1783, Messina Straits, ItalyM5.9 · 1,500 deaths · 138 km
• January 21, 1065, Catania,messina,milazzo,pale, Sicily, Italy975 deaths · 124 km
• September 8, 1905, Monteleone, Tropea, Monte Poro, ItalyM7.1 · 557 deaths · 6,700 houses destroyed · 198 km
• October 23, 1907, Ferruzano, ItalyM5.9 · 158 deaths · 141 km
• May 8, 1914, Catania, Etna, ItalyM4.9 · 120 deaths · 223 houses destroyed · 78 km
• August 25, 1613, Naso, ItalyM5.6 · 103 deaths · 200 houses destroyed · 132 km
• November 16, 1894, Palmi, Santa Cristina, Italy101 deaths · 154 km
• September 8, 1818, Madonie, Italy100 deaths · 145 km

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Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 370.