| Title | Felt reports for the December 25, 1989 moment magnitude 6.2 Ungava, Quebec earthquake |
| Download | Downloads |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Lamontagne, M |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8758, 2020, 16 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/327789  Open Access |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; rtf; kmz (Google Earth); xlsx (Microsoft® Excel®); jpg |
| Province | Quebec; Newfoundland and Labrador; Nunavut; Ontario |
| NTS | 2; 3; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 32; 33; 34; 35; 36; 37; 42; 43; 44; 45; 46; 47; 52; 53; 54; 55; 56; 57 |
| Area | Nunavik; Ungava Peninsula; Hudson Bay; James Bay; Gulf of St. Lawrence; Labrador; Baffin Island; Southampton Island; Foxe Basin |
| Lat/Long WENS | -96.0000 -55.5000 70.0000 49.5000 |
| Subjects | geophysics; Science and Technology; Nature and Environment; History and Archaeology; seismology; earthquakes; earthquake studies; earthquake magnitudes; December 25, 1989 M6.2 Ungava Earthquake;
Historical research; Digitization |
| Illustrations | location maps; tables |
| Program | Public
Safety Geoscience Intraplate Earthquakes |
| Released | 2020 12 08 |
| Abstract | The December 25, 1989, Moment Magnitude 6.2 Ungava, Quebec, earthquake is one of the largest northern Canadian earthquakes of the 20th century. It occurred in the middle of the Ungava peninsula of
Quebec and caused the first documented earthquake surface rupture in Canada east of the Rockies. This Open File Report includes the macroseismic information on this earthquake, including felt report questionnaires. For each locality, the interpreted
information is presented in a digital table. The fields include the name, latitude and longitude of the municipality, a short description of the felt effect and the interpreted intensity on the Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) scale. Finally, a
GoogleEarth kmz file is added for viewing the felt information reports within a spatial tool. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The December 25, 1989, Moment Magnitude 6.2 Ungava, Quebec, earthquake is one of the largest northern Canadian earthquakes of the 20th century. It
occurred in the middle of the Ungava peninsula of Quebec and caused the first documented earthquake surface rupture in Canada east of the Rockies. This Open File Report includes the macroseismic information on this earthquake (including interpreted
felt information, images of the surface rupture in the epicentral region, photos of field work). For each locality, the interpreted information is presented in a digital table. The fields include the name, latitude and longitude of the municipality,
a short description of the felt effect and the interpreted intensity on the Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) scale. Finally, a GoogleEarth kmz file is added for viewing the felt information reports within a spatial tool. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 327789 |
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