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Geological Survey of Canada
Open File 8285

Significant Canadian earthquakes 1600–2017

M. Lamontagne, S. Halchuk, J.F. Cassidy, and G.C. Rogers

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2018.

Permanent link: https://doi.org/10.4095/311183

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Recommended citation

Lamontagne, M., Halchuk, S., Cassidy, J.F., and Rogers, G.C., 2018. Significant Canadian earthquakes 1600–2017, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8285, 1 .zip file. https://doi.org/10.4095/311183

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Contents

This Open File provides the most up-to-date information on the significant earthquakes of Canada for the period 1600 to 2017 inclusively.  In addition to slight adjustments to a previously published Open File (Lamontagne et al., 2007), the current Report adds some significant earthquakes that occurred between 2007 and 2017 inclusively.   

Directory structure
of_8285.kmz (GoogleEarth File)
of_8285.xlsx (Table of earthquake data)
of_8285.pdf (Report)
of_8285_Figure1.pdf
of_8285_Figure2.pdf
of_8285_Figure3.pdf
of_8285_readme.rtf

Isoseismals-and-DYFI (directory of 40 isoseismal and DYFI maps):

18701020-isoseismals.pdf
18721214-isoseismals.pdf
19181216-isoseismals.pdf
19250301-isoseismals.pdf
19291118-isoseismals.pdf
19351101-isoseismals.pdf
19391019-isoseismals.pdf
19440905-isoseismals.pdf
19521014-isoseismals.pdf
19650429-isoseismals.pdf
19700624-isoseismals.pdf
19720705-isoseismals.pdf
19730615-isoseismals.pdf
19760516-isoseismals.pdf
19790228-isoseismals.pdf
19790819-isoseismals.pdf
19820109-isoseismals.pdf
19820111-isoseismals.pdf
19831007-isoseismals.pdf
19851005-isoseismals.pdf
19851223-isoseismals.pdf
19881125-isoseismals.pdf
19901019-isoseismals.pdf
19920104-isoseismals.pdf
19971106-isoseismals.pdf
20000101-isoseismals.pdf
20050306-isoseismals.pdf
20050306-isoseismals-regional.pdf
20090707-DYFI.pdf
20091117-DYFI.pdf
20100623-DYFI.pdf
20110909-DYFI.pdf
20121027-DYFI.pdf
20130105-DYFI.pdf
20130517-DYFI.pdf
20140424-DYFI.pdf
20140725-DYFI.pdf
20170108-DYFI.pdf
20170501-1231-DYFI.pdf
20170501-1418-DYFI.pdf

Author contact information

M. Lamontagne (maurice.lamontagne@canada.ca)
Geological Survey of Canada
601 Booth Street 
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8

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