Article Commentary| May 27, 2015 Comment on “The Curious Case of the 1346 Earthquake Recorded Only by Very Young Chroniclers” by Romano Camassi and Viviana Castelli Emanuela Guidoboni; Emanuela Guidoboni aDipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Sezione di Geologia, Università di Bologna, Via Zamboni, 67‐40127 Bologna, Italy Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Paolo Gasperini; Paolo Gasperini bDipartimento di Fisica, Settore di Geofisica, Università di Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat, 8‐40127 Bologna, Italy Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Gianluca Valensise; Gianluca Valensise cIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Via di Vigna Murata, 605, 00143 Roma, Italy Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Graziano Ferrari Graziano Ferrari cIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Via di Vigna Murata, 605, 00143 Roma, Italy Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Emanuela Guidoboni aDipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Sezione di Geologia, Università di Bologna, Via Zamboni, 67‐40127 Bologna, Italy Paolo Gasperini bDipartimento di Fisica, Settore di Geofisica, Università di Bologna, Viale Berti Pichat, 8‐40127 Bologna, Italy Gianluca Valensise cIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Via di Vigna Murata, 605, 00143 Roma, Italy Graziano Ferrari cIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Via di Vigna Murata, 605, 00143 Roma, Italy Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 14 Jul 2017 Online ISSN: 1938-2057 Print ISSN: 0895-0695 © 2015 by the Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2015) 86 (4): 1185–1191. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220140074 Article history First Online: 14 Jul 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Emanuela Guidoboni, Paolo Gasperini, Gianluca Valensise, Graziano Ferrari; Comment on “The Curious Case of the 1346 Earthquake Recorded Only by Very Young Chroniclers” by Romano Camassi and Viviana Castelli. Seismological Research Letters 2015;; 86 (4): 1185–1191. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220140074 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search The article by Camassi and Castelli (2013) (hereinafter CC13) deals with the 1346, northern Italy earthquake, one of hundreds of medieval earthquakes that were investigated in Italy from 1983 to 2007. Regrettably, the article does not add any new data but only proposes a revision and a reinterpretation of published materials. CC13 first criticized the variability of magnitude estimates assigned to this earthquake in catalogs published in Italy over the past 20 years, then went so far as to question whether the 1346 earthquake actually occurred. Their analysis, however, is fraught with demonstrable mistakes in the analysis of medieval texts,... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.