1918 Vancouver Island earthquake

Earthquake in Canada 1918 Vancouver Island earthquake 1918-12-06 08:41:07 iscgem913365 913365 December 6, 1918 12:41 a.m. PST Canada British Columbia 7.2 Mw 30 km us 49.44 N 126.22 W inline,title Strike-slip British Columbia Canada VII The 1918 Vancouver Island earthquake occurred in British Columbia, Canada at 12:41 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on December 6.http://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/historic-historique/events/19181206-eng.php The M7 Vancouver Island Earthquake of December 6, 1918 Natural Resources Canada March 12, 2012 The earthquake was most likely of the strike-slip type, and was estimated to have a maximum perceived intensity of VII (Very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The epicenter was located east of the Stewardson inlet on the west coast of Vancouver Island, with damage occurring at the Estevan Point lighthouse on the Hesquiat Peninsula.Cassidy Ellis Rogers 1988 626 The event registered 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale and was felt as far as northern Washington state and the interior of British Columbia. The earthquake took place in the vicinity of the Cascadia subduction zone where the Juan de Fuca plate and the Explorer plate are being subducted under the North American plate at a rate of 4 cm us and less than 2 cm us per year respectively, but the event was a crustal intraplate earthquake and was produced from the complicated interaction between the plates in the area. The source of the earthquake was the Nootka transform fault, which separates the Juan de Fuca and Explorer plates and has been the origin of at least five additional moderate to large events since 1918.Cassidy Ellis Rogers 1988 617 See also List of earthquakes in 1918 List of earthquakes in Canada 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake References Bibliography John F. Cassidy John Cassidy (seismologist) Robert M. Ellis Garry C. Rogers April 1988 The 1918 and 1957 Vancouver Island earthquakes Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 78 2 617–635 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/78/2/617/119081/The-1918-and-1957-Vancouver-Island-earthquakes?redirectedFrom=fulltext Seismological Society of America External links 913365 Vancouver Island Earthquake, 1918 Vancouver Island Earthquake, 1918 1918 Vancouver Category:1918 disasters in Canada Category:December 1918 in Canada