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The Cascadia Earthquake was a magnitude 9 megathrust earthquake of the Juan de Fuca Plate in the Pacific ocean, from mid- Vancouver Island of southwest Canada off British Columbia to northern California, off what is now the Pacific Northwest of the United States. It took place at about 9:00 in the evening of January 26, 1700,
While no one who lived there at the time kept written records, the earthquake's occurrence is known from Japanese records of a tsunami that could not be tied to any other earthquake. The natives have oral traditions.
Other megathrust earthquakes are the slightly more powerful 1964 American Good Friday EarthquakeThe Good Friday Earthquake also "Great Alaska Earthquake" of March 27, 1964 was the single most powerful earthquake in United States history. The epicenter of the magnitude 9. 2 earthquake was in Prince William Sound in South Central Alaska. Most of the p measured at 9.2, and the 1960 Great Chilean EarthquakeThe Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960, was an earthquake measuring 9. 5 on the Richter scale (9. It affected southern Chile. Its epicenter was located in Valdivia, Chile, approximately 700 kilometers (435 miles) south of Santiago. The earthquake ca measured at 9.5 on the Richter scale.
See also New Madrid EarthquakeThe New Madrid Earthquake the largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States of America, occurred on December 16, 1811. It derived its name from its primary location in the New Madrid Seismic Zone near New Madrid, Missouri. This earthquake was foll, which measured 8.0 or higher (the Richter scale had not been invented yet).
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- List of earthquakesThe following is a list of major earthquakes . Major earthquakes † M Gutenberg and Richter's (1954) magnitude, M 20 s surface-wave magnitude, M moment magnitude (Hanks and Kanamori, 1979), and M is an intensity magnitude, M is local magnitude (Richter, 19
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