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2. List of earthquakes in Canada - Wikipedia

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   Toggle the table of contents. List of earthquakes in Canada. 3 languages. ... Aftershock of 7.8 earthquake [10] 2012-10-28 Haida Gwaii 52.67 -132.60 0 0 6.3 V

3. Western Quebec Seismic Zone - Wikipedia

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   The Western Quebec Seismic Zone ( French: Zone sismique de l'Ouest du Québec) is a seismically active area in the Ottawa Valley in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec. The zone stretches from Montreal to Témiscaming and from Cornwall up along the Laurentian Mountains . Significant earthquakes associated with this seismic zone include the 1732 ...

4. 2010 Central Canada earthquake - Wikipedia

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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] Canada's capital, Ottawa, declared this ...

5. Earthquake shaking table - Wikipedia

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   Earthquake shaking table at the National Technical University, Athens, Greece. There are several different experimental techniques that can be used to test the response of structures and soil or rock slopes to verify their seismic performance , one of which is the use of an earthquake shaking table (a shaking table , or simply shake table ).

6. 2000 Kipawa earthquake - Wikipedia

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   The 2000 Kipawa earthquake (or 2000 Kipawa "Millennium" earthquake [1]) struck Quebec and Ontario, Canada with a moment magnitude of 5.2 at 6:22 a.m. on January 1. [2] It occurred in the Western Quebec Seismic Zone. The main shock epicenter was located in Lake Kipawa about 10 km (6 mi) north of Témiscaming in southwestern Quebec and 70 km (43 ...

7. List of costliest earthquakes - Wikipedia

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   1994 Northridge earthquake. California, United States. 6.7. $40 billion (1994) [ 8] $82.2 billion (2023) 6. 2010 Canterbury earthquake. 2011 Christchurch earthquake. New Zealand.

8. Richter scale - Wikipedia

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   The Richter scale[ 1] ( / ˈrɪktər / ), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [ 2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude ...

9. Foreshock - Wikipedia

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   Foreshock activity has been detected for about 40% of all moderate to large earthquakes, [2] and about 70% for events of M>7.0. [3] They occur from a matter of minutes to days or even longer before the main shock; for example, the 2002 Sumatra earthquake is regarded as a foreshock of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake with a delay of more than two years between the two events.