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The 2023 fires were compared to the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire [21] [22] and the 2021 Lytton wildfire. [23] The 2023 fire season was mainly driven by anthropogenic climate change, with temperatures in Canada from May to October 2.2 °C (4 °F) higher than the 1991–2020 average. [24]
So far, there have been 4,024 wildfires across Canada, scorching more than 23.5 million acres, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. That already exceeds the record of 18.7 ...
The last known great earthquake in the northwest was the 1700 Cascadia earthquake, 325 years ago. Geological evidence indicates that great earthquakes (> magnitude 8.0) may have occurred sporadically at least seven times in the last 3,500 years, suggesting a return time of about 500 years.
Cascadia earthquake: Earthquake: British Columbia: West Coast M w 8.7 – 9.2 megathrust earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone: 1700: Eruption of Tseax Cone: Volcanic eruption: Tseax Cone, British Columbia: West Coast 2000 One of Canada's worst known geophysical disasters 1711 October 7: HMS Feversham: Shipwreck: Scatarie Island, Colony ...
The University of Oregon's earthquake research center will bring together 16 institutions to research earthquakes and the Cascadia subduction zone.
Forest fires continued to burn across Canada on Thursday as the country endured its worst-ever start to wildfire season, forcing thousands of people from their homes and sending a smoky haze ...
The 2024 wildfires in Canada began as an extension of the record-setting 2023 wildfires.The country experienced an unusually long fire season in 2023 that lasted into the autumn; these fires smouldered through the winter and about 150 re-ignited as early as February 2024.
With millions of East Coast residents now dealing with unhealthy air from wildfires in Canada, ... 2023 at 12:46 PM ... apps and websites such as IQAir and AirVisual to gauge the current air ...