1428 Catalonia earthquake
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| Local date | 2 February 1428 |
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| Local time | 08:00 to 09:00[1] |
| Magnitude | 6.7 Me |
| Epicenter | 42°22′N 2°09′E / 42.37°N 2.15°E[2] |
| Areas affected | Catalonia |
| Casualties | Hundreds |
The Catalan earthquake of 2 February 1428, known in
epicentre near Camprodon. The earthquake was one of a series of related seismic events that shook Catalonia in a single year. Beginning on 23 February 1427, tremors were felt in March, April, 15 May at Olot,[3] June, and December. They caused relatively minor visible damage to property, notably to the monastery of Amer
; but they probably caused severe weakening of building infrastructure. This would account for the massive and widespread destruction that accompanied the subsequent 1428 quake.
Modern estimates of the intensity are VIII (Damaging) or IX (Destructive) on the
Santa Maria del Mar
was destroyed.
President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Felip de Malla, in a letter.[4] It is estimated that hundreds of people were killed in the disaster: two hundred are estimated at Camprodon, one to three hundred at Puigcerdà (due to the collapse of the church), twenty to thirty at Barcelona (in Santa Maria del Mar), and almost the entire population of Queralbs. The fallout lasted well over a year. The quake was probably the worst in the history of the Pyrenees,[citation needed
] though the first recorded only occurred in 1373. It remains to this day a point of reference for the study of seismic risk.
See also
Notes
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- ^ Guidoboni E.; Ferrari G.; Mariotti D.; Comastri A.; Tarabusi G. & Valensise G. "Catalogue of Strong Earthquakes in Italy 461 B.C. - 1997and Mediterranean area 760 B.C. - 1500". Archived from the original on 26 March 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
- ^ Joan Toralles described the Olot quake in a brief notice in his Noticiari.
- ^ The letter can still be read in Josep Perarnau i Espelt (2002), "La lletra de Felip de Malla informant el rei Alfons del terratrèmol de la Candelera, 1428", Arxiu de textos catalans antics, 21:665–670.