1609 Earthquake: Nicastro, Italy

Date

1609

Place

Nicastro, Italy

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

38.600° N, 16.300° E

Country

Italy

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.

• December 28, 1908, Messina, Sicily, Calabria, ItalyM7 · 80,000 deaths · $116 million · 79 km
• January 9, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, Catania, ItalyM6 · 60,000 deaths · 972 houses destroyed · 172 km
• January 11, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, ItalyM7.4 · 54,000 deaths · 198 km
• February 5, 1783, Tyrrhenian Calabria, ItalyM6.9 · 30,000 deaths · 44 km
• February 4, 1169, Siracusa (Syracuse), Calabria, Sicily, Italy16,000 deaths · 182 km
• 1137, Catania, Sicily, Italy15,000 deaths · 179 km
• September 16, 1857, Calabria,montemurro, Italy10,000 deaths · 89 km
• December 16, 1857, Campania, Potenza, ItalyM6.5 · 10,000 deaths · 191 km
• March 27, 1638, Cosenza,martirano, Nicastro, Calabria, ItalyM7 · 9,581 deaths · 48 km
• July 17, 1361, Basilicata to Pouilles, Italy4,000 deaths · 198 km
• November 5, 1659, Panaija, Soriano, Polia, Italy2,035 deaths · 11 km
• January 1688, Pisticci, Italy2,000 deaths · 199 km
• February 6, 1783, Messina Straits, ItalyM5.9 · 1,500 deaths · 72 km
• 1086, Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy1,000 deaths · 198 km
• January 21, 1065, Catania,messina,milazzo,pale, Sicily, Italy975 deaths · 118 km

Significant earthquakes of 1609The 1600sRecent 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 843.