June 5, 1856 Earthquake: Pieve Santo Stefano, Italy

Date

June 5, 1856

Place

Pieve Santo Stefano, Italy

Intensity

IX, violent shaking, on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

46.400° N, 12.400° E

Country

Italy

Region

Southern Europe

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.

1. #1093 Montandon, Frederic (1953). Les Tremblements de Terre Destructeurs en Europe, a L'Union Internationale de Secours, Geneva, Switzerland, 195 p.

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