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Date Place Lat Lon Deaths Injuries Mag. MMI Comments 2018-10-22 Vancouver Island, British Columbia: 49.335 -129.289 0 0 6.8 IV [1]2017-05-01 Stikine Region, British Columbia: 59.83
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.
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] Canada's capital, Ottawa, declared this ...
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.
131 killed. The 1964 Alaskan earthquake, also known as the Great Alaskan earthquake and Good Friday earthquake, occurred at 5:36 PM AKST on Good Friday, March 27, 1964. [2] Across south-central Alaska, ground fissures, collapsing structures, and tsunamis resulting from the earthquake caused about 131 deaths. [3]
The 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake struck Greenland and the Northwest Territories (now Nunavut ), Canada with a moment magnitude of 7.4 [1] at 18:21:35 Eastern Time Zone on November 20. The main shock epicenter was located in Baffin Bay on the east coast of Baffin Island. Shaking was only felt at the small town of Upernavik, Greenland.
August 5, 2024 at 5:27 PM. You might not expect to start your week with an earthquake in East Tennessee. But at 10:12 a.m. Aug. 5, two miles from Sevierville, that's exactly what happened ...