Saint Lawrence rift system
- Saint Lawrence rift system
The Saint Lawrence rift system is a seismically active zone paralleling the Saint Lawrence River. The rift system trends northeast and southwest and forms a half-graben that links the Ottawa-Bonnechere and the Saguenay grabens. The rift system extends more than 1000 km along the Saint Lawrence valley from the Ottawa - Montreal area. Within the system fault reactivation is believed to occur along late Proterozoic to early Paleozoic normal faults related to the opening of the Iapetus Ocean.[ [http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/M44-2001-D15E.pdf Saint Lawrence Rift System] Retrieved on 2007-06-20] ]Two significant historically active seismic zones occur along this system associated with northwest trending intersecting graben structures. The Charlevoix region has been the location of at least five magnitude six or larger earthquakes over the last 350 years, including the 1925 Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake. At the Lower St Lawrence zone the largest recorded earthquakes are about magnitude five. Seismic studies indicate a crustal convergence across the Saint Lawrence valley of about 0.5 mm per year. [Mazzotti, S.; Henton, J.; Adams, J., "Crustal strain rates and seismic hazard from seismicity and GPS measurements along the St Lawrence Valley, Quebec", American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2004, abstract #S14A-02 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004AGUSM.S14A..02M ]
The earthquakes of the Charlevoix zone are thought to be related to the re-activation of ancient fault structures by the Charlevoix impact event. [F. ANGLIN and G. BUCHBINDER, "Microseismicity in the mid-St. Lawrence Valley Charlevoix zone, Québec", Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; October 1981; v. 71; no. 5; p. 1553-1560 http://bssa.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/71/5/1553 (abstract)]
ee also
*List of earthquakes in Canada
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