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    The Western Quebec Seismic Zone (French: Zone sismique de l'Ouest du Québec) is a seismically active area in the Ottawa Valley in Eastern Ontario and...
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    Circum-Pacific Seismic Belt or Ring of Fire. Charlevoix seismic zone (Quebec, Canada) New Madrid seismic zone (Midwestern United States) South West seismic zone (Western...
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    The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system), is a major seismic zone and a prolific...
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  • Halifax. It was the first moderate earthquake associated with the Western Quebec Seismic Zone since 20 April 2002, when the area was affected by magnitude...
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  • 1732 Montreal earthquake (category Earthquakes in Quebec)
    This was one of the major earthquakes that occurred in the Western Quebec seismic zone. List of earthquakes in Canada List of historical earthquakes...
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    area had pine-dominated forests. Ottawa is located within the Western Quebec Seismic Zone, and while relatively inactive, the city does occasionally experience...
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    1935 Timiskaming earthquake (category Earthquakes in Quebec)
    strong). The event took place in the Western Quebec seismic zone in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. The earthquake was a result of movement...
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    Manitoba, Ontario, Southwestern Quebec (including Pontiac, Quebec and the lower half of the Western Quebec Seismic Zone), and the Maritime Provinces. They...
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  • Canada List of fires in Canada List of shipwrecks of Canada "The Western Quebec Seismic Zone". 2008-09-17. Archived from the original on 2008-09-17. Retrieved...
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  • 2000 Kipawa earthquake (category Earthquakes in Quebec)
    earthquake) struck Quebec and Ontario, Canada with a moment magnitude of 5.2 at 6:22 a.m. on January 1. It occurred in the Western Quebec seismic zone. The main...
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    Geological fault zones run through the region, including the Western Quebec Seismic Zone and the St. Lawrence Rift System. These fault zones result in a graben...
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    Timiskaming Graben (category Seismic faults of Canada)
    000 years ago. The Timiskaming Graben is a seismically active structure in the Western Quebec Seismic Zone. Reactivation of faults has resulted in earthquakes...
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    Charlevoix Seismic Zone, which is the most active seismic zone in Eastern Canada. La Malbaie is notable for having an extremely high seismic risk, although...
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    right-angled suture zone that extends eastward from Saskatchewan through collisional belts in the Churchill province, through northern Quebec, parts of Labrador...
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  • natural seismic events in Western Canada are located near the Cascadia and Juan de Fuca Subduction Zones. The majority of large, natural seismic events...
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  • River – River of central India in a rift valley New Madrid Seismic Zone – Major seismic zone in the southern and midwestern United StatesPages displaying...
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  • aulacogen is brittle and weak from when the rift zone was active, causing occasional volcanic or seismic activity. Because this is an area of weakness in...
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    Flinn-Engdahl regionalization (category Seismic zones)
    Flinn-Engdahl regions (or F-E regions) comprise a set of contiguous seismic zones which cover the Earth's surface. In seismology, they are the standard...
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    Bas-Saint-Laurent (category Administrative regions of Quebec)
    and La Pocatière. The seismic data indicates that an earthquake happens on average every 36 hours in the Charlevoix-Kamouraska zone. They are concentrated...
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    The rift zone that contains the Gulf of Corinth in Greece The Reelfoot Rift, an ancient buried failed rift underlying the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the...
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  • List of historical earthquakes (category Articles using abbreviated captions for seismic magnitude)
    Bonvalot S. (2011). "Interseismic Coupling and Seismic Potential along the Central Andes Subduction Zone". Journal of Geophysical Research. 116 (B12):...
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  • Superior Craton (category Geology of Quebec)
    The Superior Craton is a stable crustal block covering Quebec, Ontario, and southeast Manitoba in Canada, and northern Minnesota in the United States....
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    operations. Most of the seismic events reported in this period are closely located to hydraulic fracturing wells completed in western Alberta and northeast...
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    Hudson Bay (category Landforms of Nord-du-Québec)
    of the Northwest Territories.: 427  In 1912, the western shore south of 60° and, following the Quebec Boundaries Extension Act, 1912, all the eastern shore...
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    occurred in the Virginia seismic zone, located in the Piedmont region. The Virginia Piedmont area was formed originally as part of a zone of repeated continental...
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    2010-05-11. Payne, J. F.., White, Dave., Coady, Jamie. Potential Effects of Seismic Airgun Discharges on Monkfish Eggs (Lophius Americanus) and Larvae. Canada:...
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    James Bay Project (category Hydro-Québec)
    area lies in the zone of discontinuous permafrost, whose depth is significantly reduced by the deep snow cover. The natural seismicity of the area is low...
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    Shale gas in Canada (category Energy in Quebec)
    that Chevron Canada had confirmed that "a magnitude 4.4 seismic event was recorded by seismic monitoring arrays operated by Chevron Canada and Natural...
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    If harnessed, the seismic energy from this earthquake would power a city the size of Los Angeles for an entire year. The seismic moment (M0), which represents...
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    rivers drain into the St. Lawrence. The St. Lawrence River is in a seismically active zone where fault reactivation is believed to occur along late Proterozoic...
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