List of earthquakes in Switzerland
This is a list of earthquakes in Switzerland:
Earthquakes
| Date (UTC) | Location | Mag. | MMI
|
Deaths | Injuries | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1295 | Churwalden | 6.5±0.5 | VIII | Mw [1] | |||
| 1356 | Basel | 6.7–7.1 | X | 300 | Mw [2] | ||
| 1524 | Ardon | 5.8 | VIII | Damaging[3] | |||
| 1584 | Aigle | 5.9 | VIII | 320 | Triggered a tsunami in Lake Geneva. Most deaths associated with a Mw 5.4 aftershock which triggered a rockfall.[3] | ||
| 1601 | Unterwalden | 6.2 | VIII | 9 | Triggered a tsunami in Lake Lucerne.[4] | ||
| 1755 | Sierre | 6.1 | VIII | Mw [5] | |||
| 1855 | Visp | 6.4 | VIII | 1 | Mw [6] Only casualty was a person killed by rockfall.[7] | ||
| 1946 | Sierre | 6.2 | VIII | 4 | Destructive and one death in France. Rockslides. | ||
| Note: Only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded. | |||||||
References
- S2CID 128830253.
- S2CID 130044448.
- ^ S2CID 133623360.
- doi:10.1007/s00015-003-1094-1 (inactive 31 January 2024).)
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- S2CID 129143307.
- ^ "The earthquake in Switzerland in 1855" (PDF): 94.
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Sources
- NGDC (1972), Significant Earthquake Database, doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K
- ISC (27 June 2022), ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009), Version 9.1, International Seismological Centre