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Historic Earthquake
1970 Canada Earthquake
24 June 1970 · Queen Charlotte Islands, British Colombia · Canada
On 24 June 1970 at 13:09 UTC, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Canada (Queen Charlotte Islands, British Colombia), at a depth of 12 km. It occurred on the North American Plate, 16 km from its boundary with the Pacific Plate (continental transform fault).
- Date
- 24 June 1970
- Time
- 13:09 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.5
- Depth
- 12 km
- Plate
- North American Plate
- Country
- Canada
- Nearest Volcano
- Milbanke Sound Group (174 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20122012 Haida Gwaii Earthquake · M 7.71 deaths
- 19491949 Queen Charlotte Islands Earthquake · M 8.1
- 1929Queen Charlotte Islands · M 7.0
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth