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The Cascadia subduction zone is a 960 km (600 mi) fault at a convergent plate boundary, about 100–200 km (70–100 mi) off the Pacific coast, that stretches from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Northern California in the United States
First supershear earthquake observed in an oceanic plate boundary 2015-04-24 South of Haida Gwaii: 51.62 -130.77 0 0 6.2 V 2012-11-08 West of Vancouver Island 49.23 -128.48 0 0 6.1 IV [9] 2012-10-30 Haida Gwaii: 52.37 -131.90 0 0 6.2 Aftershock of 7.8 earthquake [10] 2012-10-28 Haida Gwaii 52.67 -132.60 0 0 6.3 V Aftershock of 7.8 earthquake [11]
Vancouver, BC West Coast 8 [12] 1946 June 23: Vancouver Island earthquake: Earthquake Vancouver Island, BC West Coast 2 1946 September 18: 1946 SABENA DC-4 crash: Aircrash near Gander, Newfoundland: Atlantic Canada 27 1949 September 9: Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108: Aircrash/Bombing near Sault-au-Cochon, Quebec: Central Canada 23 1949 ...
A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsunami. Researchers mapped it comprehensively for the first time.
Two earthquakes were recorded in the general area of the slide. [6] [better source needed] One quake occurred at 3:56 am and the second at 6:58 am.The slide that obliterated the mountain's southwestern slope was discovered when members of the RCMP detachment at Hope were dispatched to what were reported as a couple of small rock slides.
The islands are located along the Queen Charlotte Fault, an active transform fault that produces significant earthquakes every 3–30 years. This is the result of the converging of the Pacific and North American Plates along the archipelago's west coast. [63] [64] Major earthquakes have occurred in the Haida Gwaii in 1949 and 2012. Though the ...
The 1918 Vancouver Island earthquake occurred in British Columbia, Canada at 12:41 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on December 6. [1] The earthquake was most likely of the strike-slip type, and was estimated to have a maximum perceived intensity of VII ( Very strong ) on the Mercalli intensity scale .
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