1356 Lisbon earthquake

Earthquake that affected Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon earthquake (disambiguation) July 2025 October 2024 1356 Lisbon earthquake 36 30 N 10 0 W inline,title yes 24 August 1356 8.5 (est.)April 2000 J. Alveirinho Dias SIMOS Sismicidade de Portugal http://w3.ualg.pt/~jdias/GEOLAMB/GA5_Sismos/57_Portugal/572_SismicidPort.html 31 July 2025 23 February 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200223104543/http://w3.ualg.pt/~jdias/GEOLAMB/GA5_Sismos/57_Portugal/572_SismicidPort.html dead Portugal The 1356 Lisbon earthquake was a very high magnitude earthquake that struck the Lisbon area and beyond late in the day on Wednesday, 24 August 1356, Saint Bartholomew's Day.Udias A. Historical Earthquakes (Before 1755) of the Iberian Peninsula in Early Catalogs Seismological Research Letters 2015 86 3 999–1005 10.1785/0220140200 2015SeiRL..86..999U Ferrão C. Bezzeghoud M. Caldeira B. Borges J. F. The Seismicity of Portugal and Its Adjacent Atlantic Region from 1300 to 2014: Maximum Observed Intensity (MOI) Map Seismological Research Letters 2016 87 3 743–750 10.1785/0220150217 2016SeiRL..87..743F It lasted a quarter of an hour and destroyed several buildings, including the city's four bread ovens.4 February 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180204000620/https://nationalgeographic.sapo.pt/historia/grandes-reportagens/585-castelo-sao-jorge January 2016 Gonçalo Pereira National Geographic Crónicas do castelo (artigo da edição portuguesa de janeiro de 2016) https://nationalgeographic.sapo.pt/historia/grandes-reportagens/585-castelo-sao-jorge Aftershocks were felt for a year.24 January 2004 Público Que a terra não trema https://www.publico.pt/2004/01/27/jornal/que-a-terra-nao-trema-183479 Earthquake The earthquake probably originated in the Gorringe Ridge, off Cape St. Vincent.Udías Agustín Large Earthquakes and Tsunamis at Saint Vincent Cape before the Lisbon 1755 Earthquake: A Historical Review Pure and Applied Geophysics 2020 177 4 1739–1745 10.1007/s00024-019-02323-z Records The earthquake is mentioned, for example, in the Livro da Noa, which belonged to the library of the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Coimbra, in the Livro das Lembranças, in the Crónica de D. Pedro I de Castela, and in the Chancelaria de D. Pedro I.2007 Marisa João Costa Fonseca Sismicidade histórica em Portugal no período medieval https://www.academia.edu/277108 The event was largely forgotten until, in the 21st century, an inscription about the earthquake was found on the wall of the Torre do Paço, in the São Jorge Castle. See also Portugal 1356 Basel earthquake 1722 Algarve earthquake 1761 Portugal earthquake Azores–Gibraltar Transform Fault List of earthquakes in Portugal List of historical earthquakes References Category:Earthquakes in Portugal Category:14th century in Portugal