What the records say
- When
- 28 Oct 2012
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 52.79° N, 132.10° W
- Deaths
- 1
- Max water height m
- 12.98
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.7
- Runups
- 178
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake
Earthquake in Canada
The 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake occurred just after 8:04 p.m. PDT on October 27. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.8 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of V (Moderate). The earthquake's epicentre was on Moresby Island of the Haida Gwaii archipelago. This was the second largest Canadian earthquake ever recorded by a seismometer, after the 1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake, about 135 kilometres (84 mi) away.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page