List of earthquakes in Canada
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| Date | Time‡ | Place | Lat | Lon | Deaths | M | I | Comments | ||
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| 1663-02-05 | 17:30 (local time) | Charlevoix–Kamouraska Region, QC | 47.60 | -70.10 | 7.0 | Mw | X | [1] | ||
| 1700-01-26 | 21:00 (local time) | 48.50 | -125.00 | 8.7–9.2 | Mw | This earthquake was linked to the "orphan tsunami" in Japan | [1] | |||
| 1732-09-16 | 11:00 (local time) | Montreal, QC | 45.50 | -73.60 | 5.8 | Mw | [1] | |||
| 1791-12-06 | 20:00 (local time) | Charlevoix | 47.4 | -70.5 | 6.0 | [1] | ||||
| 1860-10-17 | 06:15 (local time) | Charlevoix, QC | 47.5 | -70.1 | 6.0 | [1] | ||||
| 1870-10-20 | 11:30 (local time) | Charlevoix, QC | 47.4 | -70.5 | 6.5 | [1] | ||||
| 1872-12-15 | 05:37 | Washington State | 47.76 | -119.90 | 6.5–7.0 | Mw | VIII | [1] | ||
| 1899-09-04 | 00:22 | Yukon–Alaska border | 60.00 | -140.00 | 8.2 | Ms | [1] | |||
| 1918-12-06 | 08:41:08 | Vancouver Island, BC | 49.44 | -126.22 | 7.2 | Mw | VIII | [1] | ||
| 1925-03-01 | 02:19:20 | Charlevoix–Kamouraska, QC | 47.8 | -69.8 | 6.2 | Mw | VIII | [1] | ||
| 1929-05-26 | 22:39:54 | South of Queen Charlotte Islands, BC | 51.51 | -130.74 | 7.0 | Mw | [1] | |||
| 1929-11-18 | 20:32 | Grand Banks of Newfoundland | 44.5 | -56.30 | 28 | 7.2 | Mw | VI | Triggered a major underwater slump that caused a large tsunami, which devastated some coastal communities on Newfoundland | [1] |
| 1933-11-20 | 23:21:32 | Baffin Bay | 73.0 | -70.75 | 7.3–7.4 | Mw | Largest known earthquake north of the Arctic Circle | [1] | ||
| 1935-11-01 | 06:03:40 | Timiskaming | 46.78 | 79.07 | 6.1 | Mw | VII | [1] | ||
| 1944-09-05 | 04:38:45 | Cornwall, ON/Massena, NY | 44.97 | -74.90 | 5.8 | Mw | VII | [1] | ||
| 1946-06-23 | 17:13:26 | Vancouver Island, BC | 49.76 | -125.34 | 2 | 7.3 | Ms | VIII | [1] | |
| 1949-08-22 | 04:01:12 | Queen Charlotte Islands, BC | 53.62 | -133.27 | 8.1 | Mw | VIII | [1] | ||
| 1958-07-09 | 06:15 | Lituya Bay, Alaska | 58.6 | -137.10 | 5 | 8.3 | Mw | XI | Triggered a rockfall that caused a tsunami with a runup of 524 metres (1,719 ft) | [1] |
| 1970-06-24 | 13:09:08 | Queen Charlotte Islands, BC | 51.77 | -130.76 | 7.4 | Mw | [1] | |||
| 1979-02-28 | 13:27 (local time) | Southern Yukon–Alaska Border | 60.59 | -141.47 | 7.2 | Mw | [1] | |||
| 1982-01-09 | 08:53 | Miramichi, NB | 47.00 | -66.60 | 5.7 | A pair of earthquakes, two days apart | [1] | |||
| 1985-12-23 | 23:16 (local time) | The Nahanni region | 62.19 | -124.24 | 6.9 | Mw | The strongest of a sequence of major earthquakes | [1] | ||
| 1988-11-25 | 23:46:04 | Saguenay | 48.12 | -71.18 | 5.9 | Mw | VII | [1] | ||
| 1989-12-25 | 14:24 | Ungava Region | 60.12 | -73.60 | 6.3 | Ms | This was the first earthquake in eastern North America confirmed to have produced surface faulting | [1] | ||
| 1997-11-05 | 02:34:33 | Quebec City, QC |
46.80 | -71.42 | 1 | 5.1 | Mn | [2] | ||
| 2000-01-01 | 11:22:58 | Temiscamingue Region | 46.84 | -78.93 | 5.2 | Mn | VI | [2] | ||
| 2001-02-28 | 18:54:32 | Puget Sound | 47.15 | -122.71 | 1 (USA) | 6.8 | Mw | [2] | ||
| 2004-11-02 | 10:02:11 | Vancouver Island, BC | 49.15 | -129.00 | 6.6 | Mw | [2] | |||
| 2007-10-09 | The Nazko region | 52.88 | -124.8 | 4.0 (or less) | I | The first of a swarm of earthquakes that went on until 12 June 2008 | [2] | |||
| 2008-01-05 | 11:01:01 | Queen Charlotte Islands, BC | 51.07 | -131.06 | 6.5 | Mw | Followed by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake just over 40 minutes later | [2] | ||
| 2009-11-17 | 15:30:41 | Queen Charlotte Islands, BC | 51.82 | -131.78 | 6.5 | Mw | [2] | |||
| 2010-06-23 | 13:41:41 EDT | Central Canada | 45.9 | -75.5 | 5.0 | Mw | VI | |||
| 2011-09-09 | 19:31:34 | Vancouver Island | 49.49 | -126.97 | 6.4 | Mw | This earthquake, which lasted 20–30 seconds, was the strongest to hit the region in nearly 7 years. It occurred on a secondary strike-slip structure and not on the plate boundary itself | [3] | ||
| 2012-08-19 | 279 km WSW of Tofino, BC (offshore) | 5.2 | [4] | |||||||
| 2012-10-27 | 20:04 (local time) | Haida Gwaii | 7.7 | V | [5] |
Abbreviations used:
- Mw Moment magnitude scale
- ML Richter magnitude scale
- Ms Surface wave magnitude scale
- Mn Nuttli magnitude scale—a version of the Richter scale specifically for use in eastern North America[6]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/index-eng.php/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-eng.php
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Natural Resources Canada Earthquakes Canada
- Earthquakes Canada Recent earthquakes
