| Title | La Zone sismique de Charlevoix-Kamouraska, Québec |
| Download | Downloads |
| Author | Lamontagne, M |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7572, 2014, 1 sheet, https://doi.org/10.4095/293772 (Open Access) |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | French |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Quebec |
| NTS | 21M/09; 22I/13 |
| Area | Charlevoix; Kamouraska; La Malbaie; Baie-St-Paul |
| Lat/Long WENS | -70.5000 -69.5000 47.7500 47.5000 |
| Subjects | geophysics; seismic zones; seismicity; earthquakes; earthquake magnitudes; epicentres; Logan Line |
| Illustrations | location maps; cross-sections; block diagrams |
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| Program | Quantitative risk assessment project, Public Safety Geoscience |
| Released | 2014 04 09 |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The Charlevoix-Kamouraska Seismic Zone is the most active zone of Quebec. The region has had five earthquakes of between 6 and 7 on the Richter scale
and hundreds of small earthquakes are recorded there yearly. The poster presnet maps and photographs of damage and invite the public to be prepared in case a damaging earthquake occurs in the future. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 293772 |
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