| Titre | Casualties directly caused by an earthquake in Canada: first contemporaneous written accounts from the M 6.5 Charlevoix, Quebec, earthquake of 20 October 1870 |
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| Auteur | Lamontagne, M |
| Source | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America vol. 98, no. 3, 2008 p. 1602-1606, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120070227 |
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| Année | 2008 |
| Séries alt. | Secteur des sciences de la Terre, Contribution externe 20070265 |
| Éditeur | Seismological Society of America (SSA) |
| Document | publication en série |
| Lang. | anglais |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1785/0120070227 |
| Media | papier; en ligne; numérique |
| Formats | pdf |
| Province | Québec |
| SNRC | 21M/07; 21M/08; 21M/09; 21M/10; 21M/15; 21M/16; 21N/05; 21N/12; 21N/13; 22C/04; 22D/01; 22D/02 |
| Région | Charlevoix |
| Lat/Long OENS | -71.0000 -69.5000 48.1667 47.2500 |
| Sujets | secousses séismiques; risque de tremblement de terre; dégât causés par les tremblements de terre; magnitudes des séismes; études séismiques; dangers pour la santé; géophysique; géologie de
l'ingénieur |
| Illustrations | cartes de localisation |
| Diffusé | 2008 06 01 |
| Résumé | (disponible en anglais seulement)
This article documents what appear to be the only deaths directly caused by an earthquake in Canada since European settlement. Canadian earthquakes are known to
have caused many cases of indirect casualties (drownings from earthquaketriggered submarine slumps, heart attacks, etc.). However, direct casualties had never been documented before the close examination of the reports from the 20 October 1870, M 6.5
Charlevoix earthquake. The information contained in available documents from that time period converges to two direct casualties in the Les Éboulements area, very close to the epicenter. Reports of casualties in the Quebec City newspapers, the death
registry in Les Éboulements, and the intense damage suffered by the houses of the residents point towards two children being killed during, or slightly after, the earthquake. This area of Les Éboulements is not an area of deep unconsolidated
deposits, suggesting a possible directivity or focusing effect for the strong ground motions. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 224285 |
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