List of earthquakes in Switzerland explained

This is a list of earthquakes in Switzerland:

Earthquakes

Date (UTC)	Location		MMI	Deaths	Injuries	Comments
1295	Churwalden	6.5±0.5	VIII			[1]
1356	Basel	6.7–7.1	X	300		[2]
1524	Ardon	5.8	VIII			Damaging[3]
1584	Aigle	5.9	VIII	320		Triggered a tsunami in Lake Geneva. Most deaths associated with a 5.4 aftershock which triggered a rockfall.
1601	Unterwalden	6.2	VIII	9		Triggered a tsunami in Lake Lucerne.[4]
1755	Sierre	6.1	VIII			[5]
1855	Visp	6.4	VIII	1		[6] Only casualty was a person killed by rockfall.[7]
1946	Sierre	6.2	VIII	4		Destructive and one death in France. Rockslides.
Note: Only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded.

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Notes and References

1. Schwarz-Zanetti . G. . Deichmann . N. . Fäh . D. . The earthquake in Churwalden (CH) of September 3, 1295 . Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae . 2004 . 97 . 2 . 255–264 . 10.1007/s00015-004-1123-8 . 2004SwJG...97..255S . 128830253 . free .
2. Fäh . Donat . Gisler . Monika . Jaggi . Bernard . Kästli . Philipp . Lutz . Thomas . Masciadri . Virgilio . Matt . Christoph . Mayer-Rosa . Dieter . Rippmann . Dorothee . Schwarz-Zanetti . Gabriela . Tauber . Jürg . Wenk . Thomas . The 1356 Basel earthquake: an interdisciplinary revision . Geophysical Journal International . 2009 . 178 . 1 . 351–374 . 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04130.x. 2009GeoJI.178..351F . 130044448 . free . 20.500.11850/21256 . free .
3. Schwarz-Zanetti . Gabriela . Fäh . Donat . Sylvain . Gache . Philipp . Kästli . Jeanluc . Loizeau . Virgilio . Masciadri . Gregor . Zenhäusern . Two large earthquakes in western Switzerland in the sixteenth century: 1524 in Ardon (VS) and 1584 in Aigle (VD) . Journal of Seismology . 2018 . 22 . 2 . 439–454 . 10.1007/s10950-017-9715-8. 2018JSeis..22..439S . 20.500.11850/228325 . 133623360 . free .
4. Schwarz-Zanetti . G. . Deichmann . N. . Fäh . D. . Giardini . D. . Jiménez . M. . Masciadri . V. . Schibler . R. . Schnellmann . M. . The earthquake in Unterwalden on September 18, 1601: A historico-critical macroseismic evaluation . Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae . 2003 . 96 . 3 . 10.1007/s00015-003-1094-1 . 1 November 2024 .
5. Gisler . M. . Fäh . D. . Deichmann . N. . The Valais earthquake of December 9, 1755 . Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae . 2004 . 97 . 3 . 411–422 . 10.1007/s00015-004-1130-9. 2004SwJG...97..411G . 129222285 .
6. Kozák . J. . Vaněk . J. . The 1855 VISP (Switzerland) earthquake: Early attempts of earthquake intensity classification . Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica . 2006 . 50 . 1 . 147–160 . 10.1007/s11200-006-0008-x. 2006StGG...50..147K . 129143307 .
7. The earthquake in Switzerland in 1855 . 94 .