October 12, 1835 Earthquake: Castiglione,cosenza,crati, Italy
An earthquake struck Castiglione,cosenza,crati, Italy on October 12, 1835 at 23:00 UTC. It killed 100 people.
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Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- October 12, 1835
- Time
- 23:00 UTC
- Place
- Castiglione,cosenza,crati, Italy
- Intensity
- XI, extreme shaking, on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 39.300° N, 16.300° E
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Southern Europe
The toll
- Deaths
- 100
- 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.
Sources NCEI cites
The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.
- #1099 Karnik, V. (1971). Seismicity of the European Area, Part 2, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland. 218 p.
- #516 Davidson, C. (1936). Great Earthquakes, Thomas Murty and Co., London, United Kingdom, 286 p.
- #1093 Montandon, Frederic (1953). Les Tremblements de Terre Destructeurs en Europe, a L'Union Internationale de Secours, Geneva, Switzerland, 195 p.
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- December 28, 1908, Messina, Sicily, Calabria, Italy
- February 5, 1783, Tyrrhenian Calabria, Italy
- December 5, 1456, Avellino,napoli,abruzzi, Brindisi,benevento, Italy
- September 16, 1857, Calabria,montemurro, Italy
- December 16, 1857, Campania, Potenza, Italy
- March 27, 1638, Cosenza,martirano, Nicastro, Calabria, Italy
- November 23, 1980, Avellino, Potenza, Caserta, Naples, Italy
- September 8, 1694, Calitri, Italy
- July 17, 1361, Basilicata to Pouilles, Italy
- November 5, 1659, Panaija, Soriano, Polia, Italy
- January 1688, Pisticci, Italy
- February 6, 1783, Messina Straits, Italy
- January 21, 1065, Catania,messina,milazzo,pale, Sicily, Italy
- August 14, 1851, Melfi, Rapolla, Barile, Rionero, MT Vulture, Italy
- July 31, 1561, Picerno, Tito, Buccino, Italy
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Sources
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 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 1784.