A föld belsejének fizikája, szeizmológia, vulkanológia
The 1763 Komárom (now Komárno, Slovakia) earthquake was the biggest historical and
recorded seismic event in the Pannonian basin in the last millennium. Contemporary
documents including building damage reports from the towns of Komárom, Győr, and other
locations, aftershock reports, liquefaction reports, and local surveys of taxpayers’
loss in villages are presented to build all available datasets to evaluate the effects
of the quake. Damage in towns was recorded in detail only at the aforementioned two
locations. However, the spatial distribution of shaking intensity can be inferred
over a larger area from information obtained from other sources. Distributions of
secondary environmental effects, aftershocks, and village damage show interesting
spatial correlation among them and indicate that the epicenter may have been west
of Komárom, north of the Danube River.
