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The 2010 Central Canada earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 5.0 in Central Canada on 23 June at about 13:41:41 EDT and lasted about 30 seconds. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The epicentre was situated approximately 56 kilometres (35 mi) north of Ottawa , Ontario, [ 5 ] in the municipality of Val-des-Bois, Quebec . [ 6 ]
The 1700 Cascadia earthquake occurred along the Cascadia subduction zone on January 26, 1700, with an estimated moment magnitude of 8.7–9.2. The megathrust earthquake involved the Juan de Fuca Plate from mid- Vancouver Island, south along the Pacific Northwest coast as far as northern California. The plate slipped an average of 20 meters (66 ...
1946 Vancouver Island earthquake. / 49.62; -125.26. The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake struck Vancouver Island on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, on June 23 at 10:15 a.m. [ 1] with a magnitude estimated at 7.0 Ms[ 2] and 7.5 Mw. [ 6] The main shock epicenter occurred in the Forbidden Plateau area northwest of Courtenay.
Six large earthquakes have occurred along the Queen Charlotte Fault within the last hundred years: a magnitude 7 event in 1929, a magnitude 8.1 in 1949 (Canada's largest recorded earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake), a magnitude 7.8 in 1958, a magnitude 7.4 in 1970, a magnitude 7.8 in 2012, and a magnitude 7.6 in 2013. [4]
This earthquake, larger than the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, is Canada's largest earthquake recorded by seismometers. However, the greatest earthquake in Canadian history was the 1700 Cascadia earthquake , a megathrust earthquake that occurred along the Pacific Northwest coast from Northern California to southwestern British Columbia which ...
The 1663 Charlevoix earthquake occurred on February 5 in New France (now the Canadian province of Quebec ), and was assessed to have a moment magnitude of between 7.3 and 7.9. [2] The earthquake occurred at 5:30 p.m. local time and was estimated to have a maximum perceived intensity of X ( Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale.
In Southern California, the last major earthquake on the San Andreas fault was in 1857, estimated at somewhere around a magnitude 7.8. But even moderate quakes along the Puente Hills thrust fault ...