Fake earthquakes in Europe (284–1550)
The earthquakes reported by catalogues of historical seismicity since 1840 (the “compilations”) that no original contemporary text confirms, and the false data (place, date) attributed to real earthquakes. Part three of the book by P. Alexandre and D. Alexandre-Lamotte (2024), in French.
1,418 fake earthquakes · 159 false data on real earthquakes · 112 mentions of the AHEAD database
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Three types of fake earthquakes according to the authors: purely imaginary earthquakes (Tournai 330); real earthquakes placed at a wrong date (the earthquake of 3 January 1117 placed in 1104, 1107, 1110…); real earthquakes reported in places the original sources do not cite (the earthquake of 12 May 1021 in Bavaria turned into an intensity X shock in Basel).
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Source and citation
Alexandre P., Alexandre-Lamotte D. (2024). Les tremblements de terre en Europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance. Étude critique des sources et catalogue des tremblements de terre. Observatoire royal de Belgique. doi:10.24414/srvz-2k77
Links to AHEAD (European Archive of Historical Earthquake Data, INGV): automatic match by date and place name (or proximity of the AHEAD epicentre, to the day); neither the book nor AHEAD gives this link. 485 earthquakes and 215 fake earthquakes found.
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