A meteorite impact as the cause of today’s earthquake?
By now, everyone but Cyberpresse has probably heard that a small earthquake of magnitude 5.4 shook up the region of Riviere du loup and was felt by partyers and insomniacs all the way down to Boston and Ottawa.
What I found out today, from a report in The Agonist, was that the Charlevoix region is marked by an enormous impact crater that is more that 300 million years old. The impact created many rock fractures which, combined with the St-Laurence fault, are the source of the small earthquakes that occur in this region.
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