November 17, 1570 Earthquake: Ferrara,bologna,padova,venizia,treviso, Italy

Date

November 17, 1570

Place

Ferrara,bologna,padova,venizia,treviso, Italy

Intensity

9 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

45.300° N, 11.400° E

Country

Italy

Deaths

125

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 25, 1222, Brescia, Italy12,000 deaths · 96 km
• August 8, 1511, Cividale del Fruili, Italy3,000 deaths · 179 km
• April 14, 1672, Rimini, ItalyM5.6 · 1,500 deaths · 179 km
• September 7, 1920, Carrara,garfagnana, ItalyM5.8 · 1,400 deaths · 141 km
• May 6, 1976, NW, Slovenia, NE, Balkans NW, ItalyM6.5 · 978 deaths · $3.6 billion · 187 km
• October 19, 1768, Santa Sofia, Italy120 deaths · 152 km
• June 13, 1542, Scarperia, Italy113 deaths · 137 km
• February 14, 1834, Borgo Val Di Taro, Italy60 deaths · $170,000 · 193 km
• June 29, 1873, Bellunese, Italy55 deaths · 127 km
• 778, Treviso, ItalyM5.6 · 48 deaths · 63 km
• May 29, 2012, Medolla, Mirandola, Cavezzo, Emilia Romagna, ItalyM5.9 · 17 deaths · $16 billion · 56 km
• March 26, 1511, Idrija,skofja Loka, Slovenia, Balkans NWM6.5 · 15 deaths · 187 km
• October 9, 1828, Pavia, ItalyM5.7 · 15 deaths · 184 houses destroyed · 192 km
• September 15, 1976, Northeastern, ItalyM6 · 11 deaths · 178 km
• May 20, 2012, Mirandola, Emilia Romagna, ItalyM6.1 · 7 deaths · 48 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 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 758.