Canada's National Earthquake Scenario Catalogue - Beaufort Fault - Magnitude 5.2 The Beaufort fault in Eastern Vancouver Island is probably an active fault, near Courtenay/Comox/Cumberland. Based on current science, this fault may have ruptured in the 1946 magnitude 7.3 Vancouver Island Earthquake. This scenario represents a smaller magnitude 5.2 event. Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Lands and Minerals Sector, Geological Survey of Canada GSC.info.CGC@NRCan.gc.ca undefined/Present series; série Earth sciences Emergency preparedness Earthquakes Geological maps en,fr GitHub Repository GitHub Repository https://github.com/OpenDRR/earthquake-scenariosen,fr Geological Survey of Canada Open File Geological Survey of Canada Open File https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/publications/STPublications_PublicationsST/328/328364/gid_328364.pdfen,fr Data Dictionary Dictionnaire de données https://github.com/OpenDRR/earthquake-scenarios/releases/download/v1.2.3/dsra_attributes_fr.xlsxen,fr Data Dictionary Dictionnaire de données https://github.com/OpenDRR/earthquake-scenarios/releases/download/v1.2.3/dsra_attributes_en.xlsxen,fr M5.2 Beaufort Fault (BC) M5.2 Beaufort Fault (BC) https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/dsra_acm5p2_beaufortfault_en/MapServer/en,fr Séisme de magnitude 5,2 Faille de Beaufort (Colombie-Britannique) Séisme de magnitude 5,2 Faille de Beaufort (Colombie-Britannique) https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/rest/services/NRCan/dsra_acm5p2_beaufortfault_fr/MapServer/en,fr M5.2 Beaufort Fault (BC) M5.2 Beaufort Fault (BC) https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/services/NRCan/dsra_acm5p2_beaufortfault_en/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0&layers=3&legend_format=image%2Fpng&feature_info_type=application%2Fgeojsonen,fr Séisme de magnitude 5,2 Faille de Beaufort (Colombie-Britannique) Séisme de magnitude 5,2 Faille de Beaufort (Colombie-Britannique) https://maps-cartes.services.geo.ca/server_serveur/services/NRCan/dsra_acm5p2_beaufortfault_fr/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0&layers=3&legend_format=image%2Fpng&feature_info_type=application%2Fgeojsonen,fr Beaufort Fault - Magnitude 5.2 (Points) Faille de Beaufort - Magnitude 5,2 (Points) https://github.com/OpenDRR/earthquake-scenarios/releases/download/v1.2.3/dsra_acm5p2_beaufortfault_indicators_b.zipen,fr Beaufort Fault - Magnitude 5.2 (Polygons) Faille de Beaufort - Magnitude 5,2 (Polygons) https://github.com/OpenDRR/earthquake-scenarios/releases/download/v1.2.3/dsra_acm5p2_beaufortfault_indicators_s.zipen,fr Beaufort Fault - Magnitude 5.2 Shake Map Faille de Beaufort - Carte des secousses de magnitude 5,2 https://github.com/OpenDRR/earthquake-scenarios/releases/download/v1.2.3/dsra_acm5p2_beaufortfault_shakemap.zip
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Canada's National Earthquake Scenario Catalogue - Beaufort Fault - Magnitude 5.2
The Beaufort fault in Eastern Vancouver Island is probably an active fault, near Courtenay/Comox/Cumberland. Based on current science, this fault may have ruptured in the 1946 magnitude 7.3 Vancouver Island Earthquake. This scenario represents a smaller magnitude 5.2 event.
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