Earthquake hits city in Quebec, tremors felt in Montreal

A mini earthquake was reported conscionable extracurricular Montreal connected Monday, Earthquakes Canada says.

The national agency says connected its website that a magnitude 3.2 earthquake took spot astir 8:12 a.m. adjacent Valleyfield, a metropolis successful southwestern Quebec astir 60 kilometres from Montreal.

The epicentre of nan earthquake was 23 kilometres east-southeast of Valleyfield, and 41 kilometres southwest of Montreal.

The earthquake was “felt successful Montreal,” nan agency said.

“There are nary reports of damage, and nary would beryllium expected,” it added.

According to Earthquakes Canada, nan Geological Survey of Canada records and locates much than 4,000 earthquakes successful Canada each year, which averages retired to 11 per day. Of those 4,000, only astir 50, aliases 1 per week, are mostly felt.

Most earthquakes hap on nan progressive sheet boundaries disconnected British Columbia’s coast, and on nan bluish Cordillera (southwestern area of nan Yukon Territory and successful nan Richardson Mountains and Mackenzie Valley), arsenic good arsenic successful arctic margins (including Nunavut and bluish Quebec).

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Earthquakes besides hap often successful nan Ottawa and St. Lawrence Valleys, successful New Brunswick, and nan offshore region to nan southbound of Newfoundland.

The largest earthquake ever recorded successful Canada was a magnitude 8.1 arena that struck conscionable disconnected nan Haida Gwaii connected Canada’s westbound seashore connected Aug. 22, 1949.

The 1949 earthquake ruptured a 500-kilometre-long conception of nan Queen Charlotte fault, and was felt complete almost each of British Columbia, and arsenic acold northbound arsenic nan Yukon Territory and arsenic acold southbound arsenic Oregon State, Earthquakes Canada said.