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List of earthquakes in Canada

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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	-136.70	0	0	6.3	VIII	Minor damage / Doublet earthquake	^[2]
2017-05-01	Stikine Region, British Columbia	59.82	-136.71	0	0	6.2	VII	Minor damage / Doublet earthquake	^[3]
2017-01-08	Nunavut	74.39	-92.42	0	0	6.0	VII		^[4]
2015-04-24	South of Haida Gwaii	51.62	-130.77	0	0	6.2	V		^[5]
2014-07-17	Yukon	60.35	-140.33	0	0	6.0	VI		^[6]
2014-04-24	West of Vancouver Island	49.64	-127.73	0	0	6.5	VI		^[7]
2013-09-04	182 km SW of Bella Bella, British Columbia	51.18	-130.23	0	0	6.0	IV		^[8]
2013-01-05	Near Craig, Alaska	55.23	-134.86	0	0	7.5	VI	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]
2012-10-27	Haida Gwaii	52.77	-131.93	1^[12]		7.8	V	Non-destructive tsunami	^[13]
2011-09-09	Vancouver Island	49.49	-126.97			6.4 M_w		20–30 second strike-slip intraplate shock	^[14]
2010-06-23	Central Canada	45.9	-75.5			5.0 M_w	VI
2009-11-17	Queen Charlotte Islands, BC	51.82	-131.78			6.5 M_w			^[15]
2009-07-07	Baffin Bay	75.35	-72.45	0	0	6.1			^[16]
2008-01-05	Queen Charlotte Islands, BC	51.07	-131.06			6.5 M_w		Doublet (6.4 M_w  shock 40 minutes later)	^[15]
2007-10-09	The Nazko region	52.88	-124.8			≤4.0	I	Swarm ended June 2008
2004-11-02	Vancouver Island, BC	49.28	-128.77			6.7 M_w			^[15]
2004-07-19	Vancouver Island	49.62	-126.97	0	0	6.4	VI		^[17]
2001-04-14	Alberta	56.08	119.81	0	0	5.3	VII	Slight damage	^[18]
2001-02-28	Puget Sound	47.19	-122.66	0–1	400	6.8 M_w	VIII	One possible related heart attack in Washington.
2000-01-01	Timiskaming	46.84	-78.92			5.2 m_N	VI
1997-11-05	Quebec City, QC	46.75	-71.35	1		5.2 m_N
1989-12-25	Ungava Region	60.12	-73.6			6.0 M_w	IV	First shock in eastern North America with surface faulting
1988-11-25	Saguenay	48.12	-71.18			5.9 M_w	VII
1985-12-23	The Nahanni region, Northwest Territories	62.22	-124.24			6.9 M_w		The strongest of a sequence of major earthquakes
1982-01-09	Miramichi, NB	47.00	-66.60			5.7		Doublet (two days apart)	^[19]
1979-02-28	Southern Yukon–Alaska Border	60.59	-141.47			7.2 M_w			^[19]
1970-06-24	Queen Charlotte Islands, BC	51.77	-130.76			7.4 M_w			^[19]
1958-07-09	Lituya Bay, Alaska	58.6	-137.10	5		7.8 M_w	XI	Rockfall caused a megatsunami (524 m (1,719 ft) runup)
1949-08-22	Queen Charlotte Islands, BC	53.62	-133.27			8.1 M_w	VIII	Non-destructive tsunami
1946-06-23	Vancouver Island, BC	49.75	-124.5	2		7.5 M_w	VIII
1944-09-05	Cornwall, ON/Massena, NY	44.96	-74.83			5.8 M_w	VII
1935-11-01	Timiskaming	46.78	-79.07			6.1 M_w	VII
1933-11-20	Baffin Bay	73.12	-70.01			7.4 M_w		Largest known earthquake north of the Arctic Circle
1929-11-18	Grand Banks of Newfoundland	44.54	-56.01	27–28		7.2 M_w	VIII	Underwater slump caused destructive tsunami
1929-05-26	Queen Charlotte Islands, BC	51.51	-130.74			7.0 M_w			^[19]
1925-03-01	Charlevoix–Kamouraska, QC	47.8	-69.8			6.2 M_w	VIII
1918-12-06	Vancouver Island, BC	49.44	-126.22			7.2 M_w	VII
1899-09-10	Yukon–Alaska border	60.00	-140.00			8.2-8.4 M_s		Part of a complex and not well understood sequence	^[20]
1899-09-04	Yukon–Alaska border	60.00	-140.00			8.2-8.5 M_s		Part of a complex and not well understood sequence	^[19]^[20]
1872-12-15	Washington State	47.9	-120.3			6.5–7.0 M_w	VIII
1870-10-20	Charlevoix, QC	47.4	-70.5	6		6.5			^[21]
1860-10-17	Charlevoix, QC	47.5	-70.1			6.0			^[19]
1791-12-06	Charlevoix	47.4	-70.5			6.0			^[19]
1732-09-16	Montreal, QC	45.5	-73.6			5.8 M_w	VIII–IX
1700-01-26	Pacific Northwest	45.0	-125.0			8.7–9.2 M_w		Linked to the destructive "orphan tsunami" in Japan
1663-02-05	Charlevoix–Kamouraska, QC	47.6	-70.1			7.3–7.9 M_w	X

Abbreviations used:

M_w Moment magnitude scale
M_L Richter magnitude scale
M_s Surface wave magnitude scale
M_n Nuttli magnitude scale—a version of the Richter scale specifically for use in eastern North America^[22]

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