1627 Gargano earthquake

Large earthquake in eastern Italy 1627 Gargano earthquake Italy yes 1627 07 30 10:50 6.7 w y 41.74 15.34 region:IT_type:event inline,title Severe X Yes Apricena FaultPatacca E. Scandone P. 2004 The 1627 Gargano earthquake (Southern Italy): Identification and characterization of the causative fault Journal of Seismology 8 2 259–273 10.1023/B:JOSE.0000021393.77543.1e 2004JSeis...8..259P 129298576 5,000 dead The 1627 Gargano earthquake struck Gargano and part of Tavoliere, southern Italy, at about mid-day on 30 July 1627. A "very large earthquake" caused a major tsunami, the largest seismic event ever recorded in the Gargano region,Identification of tsunami deposits and liquefaction features in the Gargano area (Italy): paleoseismological implication https://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/3460 P. M. De Martini P. Burrato D. Pantosti A. Maramai L. Graziani H. Abramson 2003 Annals of Geophysics National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology 46 5 883, 884, 887–897 which "produced severe damage in the whole promontory", killing about 5,000 people.ftp://ftp.ingv.it/pub/alessio.piatanesi/PAPERS/1997_Perspectives_Tsu_Haz_Red_Hebenstrait.pdf Numerical simulations of the 1627 Gargano Tsunami University of Bologna, accessed via ftp.ingv.it 19 May 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20230630174050/ftp://ftp.ingv.it/pub/alessio.piatanesi/PAPERS/1997_Perspectives_Tsu_Haz_Red_Hebenstrait.pdf 2023-06-30 dead 1997 Four aftershocks were documented. The most extensive damage was noted between San Severo and Lesina. Some sources describe a large 1626 Naples earthquake,Gates Alexander E. Ritchie David Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes https://books.google.com/books?id=b1sXfJCiCHQC&pg=PA292 2009 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-7270-5 292 but other have argued that these are misreports of the 1627 event.Wasowski J Del Gaudio V Evaluating seismically induced mass movement hazard in Caramanico Terme (Italy) Engineering Geology December 2000 58 3–4 291–311 10.1016/S0013-7952(00)00040-5 2000EngGe..58..291W References Rovida A. Locati M. Camassi R. Lolli B. Gasperini P. 2016 CPTI15, the 2015 version of the Parametric Catalogue of Italian Earthquakes National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology 10.6092/INGV.IT-CPTI15 Rovida Andrea Locati Mario Camassi Romano Lolli Barbara Gasperini Paolo Data Set Earthquake catalog Significant Earthquake Database https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/910 National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA 10.7289/V5TD9V7K 1972 Data Set Category:1627 in Italy Category:1620s earthquakes Category:Earthquakes in Italy Category:17th-century tsunamis Category:1627 disasters Category:Tsunamis in Italy