Table 2 Summary of the 1755 event near Brig

Location

Name

CHX

CHY

Lat.

Lon.

Brig (VS)

641,695

129,988

46.32

7.98

Date/time (UTC)

December 9, 1755

01:45 p.m.

Intensity

Epicentral intensity (Io): VIII

Maximum intensity (Ix): VIII

Magnitude (Mw)

5.7

Effects

Primary: known

Secondary: few observations only

Level of documentation

Well-documented event for the period. No historical sources report about primary or secondary effects in a systematic way. The awareness of the event was strongly influenced by the Lisbon earthquake a few weeks earlier

Remarks

Reports on secondary effects are rare

References

Gisler et al. 2004

Gisler 2008

Gisler and Fäh 2011