Earthquake near Düren 1756
| Earthquake near Düren 1756 | |||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '0 " N , 6 ° 28' 12" E | ||
| date | February 18, 1756 | ||
| Time | about 8 a.m. | ||
| Magnitude | 6.4 M L | ||
| depth | 14 - 16 km | ||
| epicenter | Düren | ||
| country | Germany | ||
| dead | 4th | ||
The earthquake near Düren on February 18, 1756 is one of the heaviest earthquakes known in Germany . It occurred at 8 a.m. and was the culmination of a multi-year series of tremors.
The earthquake
The epicenter of the quake was near Düren ; the depth of the hypocenter is estimated at 14 to 16 kilometers. The quake caused damage to buildings in the Cologne , Aachen , Jülich and Bad Münstereifel area . The Schütter area extended to London , Magdeburg and Strasbourg . The earthquake was classified according to the traditional damage to the intensity level VIII of the MSK-64 ; According to today's assessment it reached a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale and was thus significantly stronger than the earthquake in Roermond in 1992 , which reached a magnitude of 5.9.
Damage
There were two dead in Düren; many buildings were badly damaged or destroyed. Parts of the city walls of Düren and Bad Münstereifel collapsed or were badly damaged. Two people were also killed in Aachen and one man was seriously injured. Numerous buildings were badly damaged, including the vault above the archive in the town hall and the portrait of Catherine in the Augustinian Church. In Aachen some thermal springs dried up , others were characterized by increased discharge. In addition, over 300 chimneys collapsed; Over 100 chimneys were also destroyed in Cologne. Damage occurred in the vault of the new building of the main parish church St. Peter and Paul in Eschweiler . The castle Nideggen that Nothberger castle and monastery Wenau were badly damaged and partly uninhabitable. A barracks collapsed in Jülich. In Breinig and Büsbach the water level dropped in the lead - zinc - ore mines from such that some routes were dry. At the same time, a spring on the Breinigerberg also dried up . Clear extensions of the quake could be felt as far as London and Strasbourg.
A chronogram stone on the tower of the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in Eschweiler commemorates the earthquake.
Geological framework
Düren is located in the Cologne Bay earthquake area , the southern part of the Lower Rhine Bay . This is where the southern foothills of the central rift, which runs from the North Sea via the Netherlands to Germany, meet the Rhenish Slate Mountains . In the central trench , the European earth's crust sinks like a trench due to faults . This movement of the earth's crust creates tensions that manifest themselves in earthquakes, among other things. Particularly active in historical times are the west side of the Cologne Bay , the area around Aachen and the northern edge of the Rhenish Slate Mountains as far as Belgium. A similarly strong earthquake was the Verviers earthquake in 1692, the magnitude of which was also around M L 6.4 - damage was reported from Kent in south-east England - the Tollhausen earthquake in 1878 was less strong than in Düren with 5.9, the earthquake of 1951 Euskirchen 5.8 or 1992 Roermond earthquake of 5.9 M L .
See also
Web links
- On the 250th anniversary of the Düren earthquake - information from the Bensberg earthquake station
- Earthquake catalog for the countries of the EU (as of 1990), Switzerland and Austria. BGR, Hanover
Individual evidence
- ↑ BGR, EU earthquake catalog, 1756/02/18 and earthquake catalog for the Federal Republic of Germany, 1756 02 18
- ↑ BGR earthquake catalog for the Federal Republic of Germany with peripheral areas. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 16, 2011 ; accessed on January 18, 2010 (see overview in the file Tab-Schadenbeben_ab_7-8.pdf accessible via the link ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Johann Peter Joseph Monheim : The healing springs of Aachen, Burtscheid, Spaa, Malmedy and Heilstein in their historical, geognostic, physical, chemical and medical relationships . Aachen 1829, p. 260 .
- ↑ German historical earthquake catalog from the year 800. (zip file with source table Tab-Schadenbeben_ab_7-8.pdf ; 522 kB) (No longer available online.) BGR, Hanover, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 7, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ On the 250th anniversary of the Düren earthquake - information from the Bensberg earthquake station
- ↑ Why is the earth shaking in the Rhineland? Bensberg earthquake station
