September 15, 1454 Earthquake: Switzerland
An earthquake struck Switzerland on September 15, 1454 at 01:00 UTC.
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
- September 15, 1454
- Time
- 01:00 UTC
- Place
- Switzerland
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 47.500° N, 7.600° E
- Country
- Switzerland
- Region
- Northern and Western Europe
The toll
- Deaths
- Some (about 51 to 100)
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.
Sources NCEI cites
The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.
- #1155 Mayer-Rosa, D. (1980). The Swiss Historical Earthquake File April 4, 1980 Revision, Institute of Geophysics, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- October 18, 1356, Basel, Switzerland
- March 11, 1584, Geneva-Yvoire, Switzerland
- September 18, 1601, Switzerland
- March 11, 1817, Chamonix Valley, France
- July 25, 1855, Haut-Valais, Switzerland
- May 12, 1021, Switzerland
- November 24, 1346, Switzerland
- September 14, 1454, Switzerland
- November 29, 1610, Switzerland
- December 8, 2006, Basel, Switzerland
- March 23, 1391, Switzerland
- December 5, 2004, Emmendingen, Freiburg Im Breisgau, Germany
- 1375, Switzerland
- April 18, 1835, Switzerland
- March 1616, Switzerland
More
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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 605.