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Vancouver Island, BC 49.28 −128.77 6.7 M w [8] ... Earthquakes Canada Recent earthquakes Archived 2012-08-19 at the Wayback Machine This page was last ...
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Chile, near Valparaíso, on April 17, at a depth of 37 km. [51] One person died of a heart attack and another due to the loss of power at a local hospital. [citation needed] A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea, about 137 km north of Lae, on April 17 at a depth of 208.2 km. [52]
The 2019 Peru earthquake caused damage in northeastern Peru, as well as in southern Ecuador. Two people were killed (one of them by falling rocks in Cajamarca), and 30 people were injured, 15 in Peru and 15 in Ecuador. [164] [165] This was the largest earthquake in 2019. 2 30 30 [166] El Salvador, La Libertad offshore, 32 km south of La ...
For decades, scientists have warned about the potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a megathrust fault that runs offshore along the coast from northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino ...
see 2019 Hualien earthquake: 23.989 121.693 1 6.1 M w (USGS) Centred 9 km east of Hualien, Taiwan, at a depth of 20.0 km. [312] April 22, 2019 09:11 Luzon, Philippines see 2019 Luzon earthquake: 14.924 120.497 18 6.1 M w (USGS) Centred 0 km ESE of Gutad, Philippines, at a depth of 20.0 km. [313] May 6, 2019 21:19 Eastern New Guinea region ...
Moderately damaging earthquakes strike between New York and Wilmington, Delaware, about twice a century, the USGS said, and smaller earthquakes are felt in the region roughly every two to three years.
The 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake occurred just after 8:04 p.m. PDT on October 27.The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of V (Moderate).The earthquake's epicentre was on Moresby Island of the Haida Gwaii archipelago (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands).
[7] [4] [5] Seafloor core evidence indicates that there have been forty-one subduction zone earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone in the past 10,000 years, suggesting a general average earthquake recurrence interval of only 243 years. [2] Of these 41, nineteen have produced a "full margin rupture", wherein the entire fault opens up. [7]