Events tagged with "juan de fuca plate"

Historical Events tagged with "juan de fuca plate"

Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.

Natural Disasters

Canada's Strongest Earthquake in Decades

August 22nd, 1949 75 years ago

The Queen Charlotte earthquake occurred in August 1949 as a result of the tectonic activity along the Pacific Coast of Canada. Measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, it shook the Queen Charlotte Islands, located off the northern coast of British Columbia. This significant seismic event triggered landslides and caused considerable damage to local infrastructure but remarkably resulted in no fatalities.