1446 Earthquake: Camerino, Italy
An earthquake struck Camerino, Italy in 1446.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- 1446
- Place
- Camerino, Italy
- Intensity
- VIII, severe shaking, on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 43.100° N, 13.100° E
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Southern Europe
The toll
- Damage
- Severe (about $5 to $25 million)
- Houses destroyed
- Many (101 to 1,000)
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.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
Reference #13725:
In plain words, the improvised chronicler tells us that in addition to the continual scare caused by the seismic sequence, which likely lasted from March to August, the earthquakes have brought down many houses, including the (colonnaded?) courtyard of the Governer’s palace of Camerino. Moreover, he says that the earthquakes destroyed many others cities and villages around Camerino, and that these villages became mounds of stones, to the point that more than 500 survivors from these places, men and women, loaded their horses and mules and donkeys with all the supplies they had saved (bread, food, and wine) to rescue themselves and all those that had lost their goods in Camerino.
[…] since the manuscript was completed before October 1446 and the chronicler places the seismic sequence between March and September, it seems consistent to place the earthquake in the same year as well.
Sources NCEI cites
The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.
- #13725 Galli, Paolo (2023). All the People of Israel Are Friends: An Unknown Mid‐Fifteenth Century Earthquake in the Marche Region (Central Italian Apennines) Recorded in a Coeval Hebrew Manuscript. Seismol. Res. Lett. 95, 539–543, DOI: 10.1785/0220230209
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- January 14, 1703, Central Apennino, Norcia, L'Aquila, Perugia, Italy
- January 13, 1915, Marsica, Avezzano, Abruzzi, Italy
- February 2, 1703, L'Aquila (Aquila), Italy
- December 1, 1328, Norcia, Italy
- December 25, 1352, Sansepolcro, Italy
- September 9, 1349, L'Aquila, Abruzzi, Sannio, Italy
- April 14, 1672, Rimini, Italy
- July 23, 1654, Alvito,bellomonte,pontecorvo,sora, Italy
- September 30, 1789, Citta Di Castello,sansepolcro, Italy
- April 6, 2009, L'Aquila, Italy
- August 24, 2016, Accumoli, Arquata, Amatrice, Italy
- May 12, 1730, Norcia, Italy
- August 3, 1414, Sansepolcro, Italy
- October 19, 1768, Santa Sofia, Italy
- June 13, 1542, Scarperia, Italy
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Sources
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 10731.