1505 Earthquake: Kapele, Slovenia, Balkans NW

Date

1505

Place

Kapele, Slovenia, Balkans NW

Intensity

10 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

45.900° N, 14.200° E

Country

Slovenia

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.

• January 25, 1348, Celovac, Veneto, Slovenia, Villach, Italy, Austria5,000 deaths · 77 km
• August 8, 1511, Cividale del Fruili, Italy3,000 deaths · 66 km
• May 6, 1976, NW, Slovenia, NE, Balkans NW, ItalyM6.5 · 978 deaths · $3.6 billion · 87 km
• June 29, 1873, Bellunese, Italy55 deaths · 143 km
• 778, Treviso, ItalyM5.6 · 48 deaths · 165 km
• December 4, 1690, Carinthie, Austria20 deaths · 84 km
• March 26, 1511, Idrija,skofja Loka, Slovenia, Balkans NWM6.5 · 15 deaths · 68 km
• September 15, 1976, Northeastern, ItalyM6 · 11 deaths · 89 km
• December 29, 2020, Petrinja, Croatia, Balkans NWM6.4 · 8 deaths · $4.2 billion · 1,500 houses destroyed · 168 km
• April 14, 1895, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Balkans NWM6.1 · 7 deaths · 32 km
• September 11, 1976, Northeastern, ItalyM5.5 · 5 deaths · 91 km
• April 12, 1998, Bovec, Kobarid, Arnoldstein, Slovenia, AustriaM5.7 · 1 death · 57 km
• July 12, 2004, Bovec, Kobarid, SloveniaM5.2 · 1 death · 62 km
• March 22, 2020, Zagreb, Croatia, Balkans NWM5.3 · 1 death · $1.8 billion · 6,305 houses destroyed · 137 km
• May 9, 1861, Citta Della Pieve, Italy1 death · 170 km

Significant earthquakes of 1505The 1500sRecent earthquakes near here

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 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 666.