Review of Historical Earthquakes in the Lower Middle Ages: Earthquakes of the XIV and XV Centuries in Catalonia (NE Spain) - Historical Seismology: Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes - page 148

5 The February 2nd, 1428 Earthquake: After Correcting
by the Results of the 1427 Sequence, Still the Largest
Earthquake Known in the Eastern Pyrenees

The earthquake of 2 February 1428 wrought heavy destruction in Catalonia and
France (Fig. 3). Taking into account the households for 1378 (Redondo 2002) con-
sidering that inhabitants 4 and the available descriptions, the num-

ber of deaths caused by the earthquake has been estimated around 1000.
This earthquake occurred at the end of the 1427 sequence commented in the
previous section and so the damage accounts for this event can be contaminated by
accumulated effects of the complete sequence.

= households ×

Fig. 3 Intensity map (EMS-98), macroseismic epicentre and isoseismal lines for the earthquake of
2 February 1428. P = perception, PD = probable damage, D = damage