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Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.</div></div><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Active transform fault in Canada and Alaska</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alaska_earthquakes.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Alaska_earthquakes.jpg/400px-Alaska_earthquakes.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Alaska_earthquakes.jpg/600px-Alaska_earthquakes.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Alaska_earthquakes.jpg/800px-Alaska_earthquakes.jpg 2x" data-file-width="976" data-file-height="620" /></a><figcaption>Tectonic map of Alaska and northwestern Canada showing main faults and historic earthquakes</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Queen Charlotte Fault</b> is an active <a href="/wiki/Transform_fault" title="Transform fault">transform fault</a> that marks the boundary of the <a href="/wiki/North_American_plate" title="North American plate">North American</a> plate and the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_plate" title="Pacific plate">Pacific plate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:13_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>'s right-lateral strike-slip equivalent to the <a href="/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault" title="San Andreas Fault">San Andreas Fault</a> to the south in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Queen Charlotte Fault forms a <a href="/wiki/Triple_junction" title="Triple junction">triple junction</a> south with the <a href="/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone" title="Cascadia subduction zone">Cascadia subduction zone</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Explorer_Ridge" title="Explorer Ridge">Explorer Ridge</a> (the <a href="/wiki/Queen_Charlotte_triple_junction" title="Queen Charlotte triple junction">Queen Charlotte triple junction</a>). The Queen Charlotte Fault (QCF) forms a <a href="/wiki/Transpression" title="Transpression">transpressional</a> plate boundary, and is as active as other major transform fault systems (i.e. <a href="/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault" title="San Andreas Fault">San Andreas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alpine_Fault" title="Alpine Fault">Alpine</a>) in terms of slip rates and seismogenic potential.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It sustains the highest known <a href="/wiki/Deformation_(physics)" title="Deformation (physics)">deformation</a> rates among <a href="/wiki/Continental_plate" class="mw-redirect" title="Continental plate">continental</a> or <a href="/wiki/Continent-ocean_boundary" title="Continent-ocean boundary">continent-ocean</a> <a href="/wiki/Transform_fault" title="Transform fault">transform</a> systems globally, accommodating greater than 50mm/yr <a href="/wiki/Dextral_fault" class="mw-redirect" title="Dextral fault">dextral</a> offset.<sup id="cite_ref-:43_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:43-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The entire approximately 900 km offshore length has ruptured in seven greater than magnitude 7 events during the last century, making the cumulative historical <a href="/wiki/Seismic_moment" title="Seismic moment">seismic moment</a> release higher than any other modern transform plate boundary system.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The fault is named for the Queen Charlotte Islands (now <a href="/wiki/Haida_Gwaii" title="Haida Gwaii">Haida Gwaii</a>) which lie just north of the triple junction. The Queen Charlotte Fault continues northward along the <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaskan</a> coast where it is called the <b>Fairweather Fault</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two segments are collectively called the <b>Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System</b>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fault_orientation_and_plate_motion">Fault orientation and plate motion</h2></div> <p>The junction of the Queen Charlotte, Fairweather, and Transition faults is located at the southeastern tip of the <a href="/wiki/Yakutat_Block" title="Yakutat Block">Yakutat block</a>, an oceanic plateau and microplate.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The southern boundary of the QCF is marked by the complex Pacific–North American–Explorer <a href="/wiki/Triple_junction" title="Triple junction">triple junction</a> off the coast of southern <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Queen Charlotte Fault continues northward along the <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaskan</a> coast where it is called the Fairweather Fault. The two segments are collectively called the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault System. The current state of <a href="/wiki/Transpression" title="Transpression">transpressive</a> plate boundary systems results from spatial and temporal changes between both <a href="/wiki/Rheology" title="Rheology">rheologic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kinematics" title="Kinematics">kinematic</a> parameters. From north to south, there is a decreasing rate of <a href="/wiki/Convergent_boundary" title="Convergent boundary">convergence</a><sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and change in fault obliquity which appears to divide the fault into at least three distinct kinematic zones<sup id="cite_ref-:13_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along strike with associated changes in seafloor morphology, fault structure, and <a href="/wiki/Seismicity" title="Seismicity">seismicity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> We have the northern, central and southern segments with maximum obliquity (approximately 15°-20°) occurring south of 53.2°N and minimum obliquity (less than 5°) occurring north of 56°N. Existing <a href="/wiki/Geophysical_survey" title="Geophysical survey">geophysical</a> data suggest abrupt transitions in deformation mechanisms and plate boundary dynamics across these boundaries with incipient <a href="/wiki/Thrust_fault" title="Thrust fault">underthrusting</a> and <a href="/wiki/Strain_partitioning" title="Strain partitioning">strain partitioning</a> in the south along Haida Gwaii,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> distributed transpression in the central segment,<sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and highly localized strike-slip deformation in the north.<sup id="cite_ref-:43_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:43-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are various mechanisms proposed to accommodate oblique convergence along the QCF, this include underthrusting and strain partitioning,<sup id="cite_ref-:13_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> crustal thickening,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and distributed shear.<sup id="cite_ref-:22_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:22-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through geologic time, a change in pacific plate motion beginning as recently as approximately 6 Ma<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or as early as approximately 12 Ma<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> caused an increase in convergence along the entire length of the fault and initiated underthrusting<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along the southern segment where convergence is highest,<sup id="cite_ref-:13_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a process that ultimately led to the 2012 Haida Gwaii thrust earthquake.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Crustal_deformation_along_strike">Crustal deformation along strike</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Southern_segment">Southern segment</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Crustal_deformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Crustal deformation">Crustal deformation</a> via <a href="/wiki/Strain_partitioning" title="Strain partitioning">strain partitioning</a> likely dominates the southern segment,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as evidenced by the <a href="/wiki/Thrust_fault" title="Thrust fault">thrust</a> mechanism of the <a href="/wiki/2012_Haida_Gwaii_earthquake" title="2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake">2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where geoscientists observed downwarping and <a href="/wiki/Normal_fault" class="mw-redirect" title="Normal fault">normal faulting</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_plate" title="Pacific plate">Pacific plate</a> west of <a href="/wiki/Haida_Gwaii" title="Haida Gwaii">Haida Gwaii</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This hypothesis is also supported by the <a href="/wiki/Geomorphology" title="Geomorphology">morphology</a> of the Queen Charlotte Terrace, an approximately 30 km-wide deformed <a href="/wiki/Accretionary_prism" class="mw-redirect" title="Accretionary prism">accretionary prism</a>-like complex west of the main QCF trace.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several recent studies based on <a href="/wiki/Seismicity" title="Seismicity">seismicity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Global_Positioning_System" title="Global Positioning System">GPS</a> observations of coseismic and postseismic deformation, and <a href="/wiki/Geothermal_gradient" title="Geothermal gradient">thermal modeling</a> support the presence of a shallow plate boundary thrust.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Central_segment">Central segment</h3></div> <p>In the central segment, abrupt changes in both seafloor morphology and structural geometry accompany a decrease in convergence angle. The Queen Charlotte Terrace widens and deepens, forming a series of oblique <a href="/wiki/Ridge" title="Ridge">ridges</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sedimentary_basin" title="Sedimentary basin">basins</a> west of the QCF main trace.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is a distinct structural transition due to a change in the stress regime from <a href="/wiki/Pure_shear" title="Pure shear">pure shear</a> in the southern QCF segment to <a href="/wiki/Simple_shear" title="Simple shear">simple shear</a> in the central QCF segment as a result of convergence decreasing below a critical angle of approximately 15°.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_8-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Northern_segment">Northern segment</h3></div> <p>In the northern segment, which bore the <a href="/wiki/Epicenter" title="Epicenter">epicenter</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Strike-slip_tectonics" title="Strike-slip tectonics">strike-slip</a> <a href="/wiki/2013_Craig,_Alaska_earthquake" title="2013 Craig, Alaska earthquake">2013 Craig earthquake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bathymetry" title="Bathymetry">bathymetric</a> data suggests that the ridge-basin complex gives way to simpler fault morphology.<sup id="cite_ref-:43_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:43-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Deformation largely occurs on what appears to be a single strike-slip structure.<sup id="cite_ref-:43_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:43-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same location also marks <a href="/wiki/Earthquake_rupture" title="Earthquake rupture">earthquake rupture</a> boundaries between the 2013 Craig event<sup id="cite_ref-:32_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:32-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 1972 M7.6 <a href="/wiki/Sitka,_Alaska" title="Sitka, Alaska">Sitka</a> event,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as the inferred intersection of the <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Strait" title="Chatham Strait">Chatham Strait</a> Fault and the Aja <a href="/wiki/Fracture_zone" title="Fracture zone">Fracture Zone</a> (FZ) with the Queen Charlotte Fault; the Aja FZ also marks an approximately 3 million year contrast in Pacific plate crustal age.<sup id="cite_ref-:13_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:13-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Accommodation of strike-slip plate motion along a narrow deformation zone is consistent with <a href="/wiki/Focal_mechanism" title="Focal mechanism">focal mechanisms</a> determined for the Craig event and its <a href="/wiki/Aftershock" title="Aftershock">aftershocks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Combined with other observations along the fault, this behavior implies that there may be a critical angle of obliquity within the simple shear regime at which distributed shear across multiple structures is not sustainable, and deformation can be more easily accommodated on a single structure.The fault has been the source of large, very large, and great <a href="/wiki/Earthquakes" class="mw-redirect" title="Earthquakes">earthquakes</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Significant_earthquakes_along_the_fault">Significant earthquakes along the fault</h2></div> <table border="2" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; float: right; font-size: 90%; text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background: #f9f9f9;">Date </th> <th style="background: #f7f9f7;"><a href="/wiki/Moment_magnitude_scale" title="Moment magnitude scale"><i>M</i></a> </th> <th style="background: #f9f9f9;">Damage </th> <th style="background: #f7f9f7;">Article </th></tr> <tr> <td>1929 </td> <td>~7 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1949 </td> <td>8.1 </td> <td>Landslides, housing and infrastructure damage, <a href="/wiki/Oil_tank" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil tank">oil tank</a> collapse </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1949_Queen_Charlotte_Islands_earthquake" title="1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake">1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1958 </td> <td>7.8 </td> <td>Landslide, megatsunami (524 m), housing and infrastructure destruction, 5 casualties </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami" title="1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami">1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1970 </td> <td>7.4 </td> <td>Landslides </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td>5.3 </td> <td>Minor </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001 </td> <td>6.3 </td> <td>Minor </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2004 </td> <td>6.8 </td> <td>Land slippage </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008 </td> <td>6.5 </td> <td>Minor </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2009 </td> <td>6.6 </td> <td>Minor </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012 </td> <td>7.8 </td> <td>Temporary desiccation of <a href="/wiki/Gwaii_Haanas_National_Park_Reserve_and_Haida_Heritage_Site" title="Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site">hot springs</a>, <p>1 casualty (indirect) </p> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2012_Haida_Gwaii_earthquake" title="2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake">2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013 </td> <td>7.6 </td> <td>Minor </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2013_Craig,_Alaska_earthquake" title="2013 Craig, Alaska earthquake">2013 Craig, Alaska earthquake</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014 </td> <td>6.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable" title="Submarine communications cable">Undersea fiber-optic cable</a> damage, causing widespread telecommunications outages </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_Palma_Bay_earthquake" title="2014 Palma Bay earthquake">2014 Palma Bay earthquake</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Six large earthquakes have occurred along the Queen Charlotte Fault within the last hundred years: a <a href="/wiki/Richter_magnitude_scale" class="mw-redirect" title="Richter magnitude scale">magnitude</a> 7 event in 1929, a <a href="/wiki/1949_Queen_Charlotte_earthquake" class="mw-redirect" title="1949 Queen Charlotte earthquake">magnitude 8.1 in 1949</a> (Canada's largest recorded earthquake since the <a href="/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake" title="1700 Cascadia earthquake">1700 Cascadia earthquake</a>), a <a href="/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami" title="1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami">magnitude 7.8 in 1958</a>, a magnitude 7.4 in 1970, a <a href="/wiki/2012_Haida_Gwaii_earthquake" title="2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake">magnitude 7.8 in 2012</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/2013_Craig,_Alaska_earthquake" title="2013 Craig, Alaska earthquake">magnitude 7.6 in 2013</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/P_wave" title="P wave">P nodal</a> <a href="/wiki/Focal_mechanism" title="Focal mechanism">focal mechanism</a> for the <a href="/wiki/1949_Queen_Charlotte_Islands_earthquake" title="1949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake">1949 earthquake</a> indicates a virtually pure <a href="/wiki/Strike-slip_tectonics" title="Strike-slip tectonics">strike-slip</a> movement with a northwest-striking nodal plane corresponding to the <a href="/wiki/Strike_(geology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike (geology)">strike</a> of the fault.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is similar to the 1970 earthquake, which also showed a strike-slip movement with a small but significant <a href="/wiki/Thrust_tectonics" title="Thrust tectonics">thrust</a> component, consistent with relative plate motion. The 1949 earthquake was larger than the <a href="/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake" title="1906 San Francisco earthquake">1906 San Francisco earthquake</a>, causing nearly a 500 kilometer-long segment of the Queen Charlotte Fault to break. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami" title="1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami">1958 earthquake</a> had a magnitude of 7.8 and led to a major <a href="/wiki/Landslide" title="Landslide">landslide</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lituya_Bay" title="Lituya Bay">Lituya Bay</a>, Alaska. This resulted in a 1,720-foot (524-meter) tsunami that crashed into a mountainside, the largest ever recorded tsunami run-up.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/2012_Haida_Gwaii_earthquake" title="2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake">2012 magnitude 7.8 earthquake</a> struck off the western coast of <a href="/wiki/Haida_Gwaii" title="Haida Gwaii">Haida Gwaii</a> at around 8:10pm Pacific Time on Saturday 27 October. This was the biggest quake in Canadian territory since 1949. Aftershocks as large as 6.3 magnitude were reported. A 45-cm tsunami was reported locally. Alerts were sent across the Pacific Basin.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This earthquake did not have any major impacts, except for the temporary desiccation of the hotsprings on <a href="/wiki/Hotspring_Island" title="Hotspring Island">Hotspring Island</a>. The springs seemed to have returned to borderline normal functioning as of July 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2012 quake was remarkable for having been a <a href="/wiki/Thrust_fault" title="Thrust fault">thrust</a>, rather than <a href="/wiki/Strike_slip_fault" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike slip fault">strike-slip</a>, tremor, more like the mechanism of the <a href="/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone" title="Cascadia subduction zone">Cascadia subduction zone</a> to the south.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recent detailed seafloor mapping has revealed the expression of the Queen Charlotte Fault on the seafloor,<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the truncation of <a href="/wiki/Submarine_canyon" title="Submarine canyon">submarine canyons</a> that occur along the <a href="/wiki/Continental_slope" class="mw-redirect" title="Continental slope">continental slope</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Canada" title="List of earthquakes in Canada">List of earthquakes in Canada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Charlotte_Sound_(Canada)" title="Queen Charlotte Sound (Canada)">Queen Charlotte Sound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_of_Fire" title="Ring of Fire">Ring of Fire</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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title="Charlevoix seismic zone">Charlevoix seismic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurentian_Slope_seismic_zone" title="Laurentian Slope seismic zone">Laurentian Slope seismic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leech_River_Fault" title="Leech River Fault">Leech River Fault</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Queen Charlotte Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saguenay_Graben" title="Saguenay Graben">Saguenay Graben</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_rift_system" title="Saint Lawrence rift system">Saint Lawrence rift system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timiskaming_Graben" title="Timiskaming Graben">Timiskaming Graben</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Quebec_seismic_zone" title="Western Quebec seismic zone">Western Quebec seismic zone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">United States</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table 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0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calaveras_Fault" title="Calaveras Fault">Calaveras Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garlock_Fault" title="Garlock Fault">Garlock Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hayward_Fault_Zone" title="Hayward Fault Zone">Hayward Fault Zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mendocino_Fracture_Zone" title="Mendocino Fracture Zone">Mendocino Fracture Zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newport%E2%80%93Inglewood_Fault" title="Newport–Inglewood Fault">Newport–Inglewood Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puente_Hills_Fault" title="Puente Hills Fault">Puente Hills Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rose_Canyon_Fault" title="Rose Canyon Fault">Rose Canyon Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jacinto_Fault_Zone" title="San Jacinto Fault Zone">San Jacinto Fault Zone</a> (<a href="/wiki/Elsinore_Fault_Zone" title="Elsinore Fault Zone">Elsinore Fault Zone</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Great Basin</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Independence_Valley_fault_system" title="Independence Valley fault system">Independence Valley fault system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moab_Fault" title="Moab Fault">Moab Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teton_Fault" title="Teton Fault">Teton Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wasatch_Fault" title="Wasatch Fault">Wasatch Fault</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Great Plains</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Humboldt_Fault" title="Humboldt Fault">Humboldt Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Point%E2%80%93Eureka_Heights_fault_system" title="Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system">Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meers_Fault" title="Meers Fault">Meers Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemaha_Ridge" title="Nemaha Ridge">Nemaha Fault Zone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Midwest</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marianna_Fault" title="Marianna Fault">Marianna Fault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Madrid_seismic_zone" title="New Madrid seismic zone">New Madrid seismic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandwich_Fault_Zone" title="Sandwich Fault Zone">Sandwich Fault Zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wabash_Valley_seismic_zone" title="Wabash Valley seismic zone">Wabash Valley seismic zone</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Appalachian Mountains<br />and Atlantic Coast</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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