March 7, 1928 Earthquake: Sicily,calabria, Italy

Date

March 7, 1928

Time

10:55:00 UTC

Place

Sicily,calabria, Italy

Magnitude

6

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

38.800° N, 16.000° E

Country

Italy

Deaths

Some (about 51 to 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.

• 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 · 179 km
• February 5, 1783, Tyrrhenian Calabria, ItalyM6.9 · 30,000 deaths · 56 km
• February 4, 1169, Siracusa (Syracuse), Calabria, Sicily, Italy16,000 deaths · 187 km
• 1137, Catania, Sicily, Italy15,000 deaths · 184 km
• September 16, 1857, Calabria,montemurro, Italy10,000 deaths · 75 km
• December 16, 1857, Campania, Potenza, ItalyM6.5 · 10,000 deaths · 167 km
• March 27, 1638, Cosenza,martirano, Nicastro, Calabria, ItalyM7 · 9,581 deaths · 36 km
• July 17, 1361, Basilicata to Pouilles, Italy4,000 deaths · 170 km
• November 5, 1659, Panaija, Soriano, Polia, Italy2,035 deaths · 28 km
• January 1688, Pisticci, Italy2,000 deaths · 182 km
• February 6, 1783, Messina Straits, ItalyM5.9 · 1,500 deaths · 72 km
• January 21, 1065, Catania,messina,milazzo,pale, Sicily, Italy975 deaths · 110 km
• April 24, 1836, Rossano,crosia,craco,basilicata, Italy589 deaths · 103 km
• September 8, 1905, Monteleone, Tropea, Monte Poro, ItalyM7.1 · 557 deaths · 6,700 houses destroyed · 16 km

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