Two main shocks on the same day, relying on separate Italian and Slovenian sources have been reconciled as local time in Italy in the 16th Century was counted from sunset, not midnight and a single event is now accepted.

[9] Descriptions of the damage caused by the 1511 earthquake in contemporary and later sources are complicated by other historical events that affected the area at about the same time.

[5] Two important contemporary records come from Jurij von Egkh, the imperial representative for the Hapsburgs in Carniola, and the Venetian historian and diarist Marino Sanudo.

There is, however, no evidence of significant earthquake damage in Idrija in contemporary accounts,[7] possibly reflecting the fact that almost all of the buildings were built of wood.

A major landslide in Idrija that dammed a stream and flooded the mercury mine happened at around the period of the earthquake but there is no evidence that directly links the two events.

At Tolmin two castles were destroyed, there was also damage at Čedad (Cividale del Friuli), Beljak (Villach), Krmin (Cormons), Gradisca d'Isonzo, Monfalcone and Gorizia.

Polhov Gradec, Škofja Loka, Smlednik, Kamnik, Tržič, Postojna and in places outside the current Slovenian borders.

The re-examination of contemporary accounts have failed to find any support for a tsunami, with damage to defensive towers in Trieste being instead attributed to the effects of bombardment of the port by Venetian forces in 1508.

[11] The damage to the castle and other important buildings in Škofja Loka were repaired quickly under Philipp von der Pfalz, the princebishop of Freising.

[12] Religious reactions to the earthquake included the building of a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Venice, the Madonna del Terremoto.

[13] In Udine, disused wells were reopened, in an apparent attempt to allow dispersal of the Earth's internal vapors, which were at the time blamed for triggering earthquakes.