A Glimpse into the Seismicity of the Ionian Islands Between 1658 and 1664 - Historical Seismology: Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes - page 64

Fig. 9 Map showing the only
place damaged by the 1662
earthquake
“ condotto/condottiero ” (commander), who had arrived in Zakynthos on 24 Febru-
ary 1662.
Together, they tell us that in the year 1662, the town of Zakynthos (Fig. 9) was
shaken by a sequence of earthquakes, which started during the night 12-13 March
and lasted for some days. The damage to the Fortress walls insisted on the same
parts already affected by the 1661 earthquake; some churches and buildings suffered
as well.
No information is available from any other places in the island neither from
the other islands or the mainland. Mocenigo and von Degenfeld describe for the
first shock the same effects, the first dating it the night 12-13 and the latter the
evening of 16 March (Table 4). There is no way to solve, at this stage, this slight
contradiction.
The testimony by von Degenfeld is really outstanding: for the details on the
main shock and the aftershocks, but mainly for filling in the most consistent docu-
mentary gap in the Provveditore of Zakynthos dispatches for the years 1658-1664
(see Fig. 2a). The reason for this dark area is the death of the Provveditore in charge,
who was momentarily substituted by his son, while the new one appointed by the
Senate travelled from Venice to Zakynthos. These administrative details are supplied