While earthquakes are much rarer in Canada, they can happen from coast to coast, though places like B.C. and Yukon territory, Ontario and Quebec are some of the more active areas. Quebec ...

The U.S. Geological Survey's new seismic hazard maps, released this week ... over the past several thousand years. Residents of Canada are in more danger from this fault than people who live ...

These plates float on the mantle, more precisely in the asthenosphere, and sometimes collide, causing earthquakes. As we can see in this interactive map ... occur near urban areas, they are ...

wildland fires and floods in Canada. The risks from earthquakes are increasing due to population growth and rising number of people and property density in urban areas, as well as a growing ...

This map shows seismic speed in the Earth’s crust at 200 kilometers depth across the continental United States and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in ...