March 28, 1730 Earthquake: Massa,carrara, Italy

Date

March 28, 1730

Place

Massa,carrara, Italy

Intensity

9 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

44.000° N, 10.100° E

Country

Italy

Deaths

Many (about 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.

• December 25, 1222, Brescia, Italy12,000 deaths · 173 km
• December 25, 1352, Sansepolcro, Italy2,000 deaths · 170 km
• April 14, 1672, Rimini, ItalyM5.6 · 1,500 deaths · 199 km
• September 7, 1920, Carrara,garfagnana, ItalyM5.8 · 1,400 deaths · 37 km
• February 23, 1887, Ligurian Coast, ItalyM6.5 · 600 deaths · 160 km
• September 30, 1789, Citta Di Castello,sansepolcro, Italy500 deaths · 178 km
• August 3, 1414, Sansepolcro, Italy200 deaths · 170 km
• November 17, 1570, Ferrara,bologna,padova,venizia,treviso, Italy125 deaths · 177 km
• October 19, 1768, Santa Sofia, Italy120 deaths · 152 km
• June 13, 1542, Scarperia, Italy113 deaths · 96 km
• February 14, 1834, Borgo Val Di Taro, Italy60 deaths · $170,000 · 65 km
• August 14, 1846, Orciano, Luciana, ItalyM6.1 · 56 deaths · 78 km
• May 29, 2012, Medolla, Mirandola, Cavezzo, Emilia Romagna, ItalyM5.9 · 17 deaths · $16 billion · 123 km
• October 9, 1828, Pavia, ItalyM5.7 · 15 deaths · 184 houses destroyed · 124 km
• May 20, 2012, Mirandola, Emilia Romagna, ItalyM6.1 · 7 deaths · 134 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 1247.