The Catalan earthquake of February 2, 1428

✍ Scribed by E. Banda; A.M. Correig

• Book ID: 103072246
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 522 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0013-7952
• DOI: 10.1016/0013-7952(84)90045-0

✦ Synopsis

The effects of the Catalan earthquake of February 2, 1428, between 8 h and 9 h local time, have been studied by reevaluating the information gathered by Fontser~ and Iglesies (1971). MSK-intendties have been assigned to 45 localities to obtain an isoseismal map. A maximum inteMity of IX has been deduced. The most probable location is the area around the village of Queralps (42.4 ° N 2.2 ° E) at a depth of about 8 kin. The attenuation seems to be similar to that found for earthquakes in Central Europe, which considerably differs from that in southern Spain.