October 12, 1791 Earthquake: Monteleone,soriano Calabro, Capri, Italy

Date

October 12, 1791

Time

17:00 UTC

Place

Monteleone,soriano Calabro, Capri, Italy

Intensity

9 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

38.500° N, 16.100° E

Country

Italy

Deaths

15

Damage

Moderate (about $1 to $5 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 · 58 km
• January 9, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, Catania, ItalyM6 · 60,000 deaths · 972 houses destroyed · 153 km
• January 11, 1693, Sicily, Calabria, ItalyM7.4 · 54,000 deaths · 179 km
• February 5, 1783, Tyrrhenian Calabria, ItalyM6.9 · 30,000 deaths · 25 km
• February 4, 1169, Siracusa (Syracuse), Calabria, Sicily, Italy16,000 deaths · 163 km
• 1137, Catania, Sicily, Italy15,000 deaths · 160 km
• September 16, 1857, Calabria,montemurro, Italy10,000 deaths · 103 km
• August 6, 1757, Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy10,000 deaths · 193 km
• March 27, 1638, Cosenza,martirano, Nicastro, Calabria, ItalyM7 · 9,581 deaths · 61 km
• November 5, 1659, Panaija, Soriano, Polia, Italy2,035 deaths · 28 km
• February 6, 1783, Messina Straits, ItalyM5.9 · 1,500 deaths · 51 km
• 1086, Siracusa (Syracuse), Italy1,000 deaths · 181 km
• January 21, 1065, Catania,messina,milazzo,pale, Sicily, Italy975 deaths · 98 km
• April 24, 1836, Rossano,crosia,craco,basilicata, Italy589 deaths · 130 km
• September 8, 1905, Monteleone, Tropea, Monte Poro, ItalyM7.1 · 557 deaths · 6,700 houses destroyed · 19 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 1510.