Southern Great Lakes Seismic Zone

The Southern Great Lakes Seismic Zone is a zone of low to moderate seismic activity surrounding Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in Canada and the United States.[1]

See also

1998 Pymatuning earthquake

References

"Earthquake zones in Eastern Canada". Natural Resources Canada. 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2010-06-27.

Major seismically active faults of North America

North America
(crosses national borders)

Aleutian Trench (US–RU)
Basin and Range Province (US–MX)
Canadian Arctic Rift System (CA–GL)
Cascadia subduction zone (US–CA)
Clarendon-Linden fault system (US–CA)
Denali Fault (US–CA)
Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province (CA–US)
Puget Sound faults (US–CA)
Rio Grande rift (US–MX)
San Andreas Fault (US–MX)
Southern Great Lakes Seismic Zone (US–CA)
Tintina Fault (US–CA)

Canada

United States

Washington and Oregon	Brothers Fault Zone Olympic–Wallowa Lineament Puget Sound (Seattle Fault, Tacoma Fault) Walker Lane
California	Calaveras Fault Garlock Fault Hayward Fault Zone Mendocino Fracture Zone Newport–Inglewood Fault Puente Hills Fault Rose Canyon Fault San Jacinto Fault Zone (Elsinore Fault Zone)
Great Basin	Independence Valley fault system Moab Fault Teton Fault Wasatch Fault
Great Plains	Central Oklahoma Fault Zone Humboldt Fault Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system Meers Fault Nemaha Fault Zone Wilzetta Fault
Midwest	Marianna Fault New Madrid Seismic Zone Sandwich Fault Zone Wabash Valley Seismic Zone
Appalachian Mountains and Atlantic Coast	Aiken–Augusta Fault Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone Middleton Place–Summerville Seismic Zone (Woodstock Fault) Northern Appalachians Seismic Zone Ramapo Fault Virginia Seismic Zone

Caribbean and Mexico

Cayman Trough
Chixoy-Polochic Fault
Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (Cuba)
Gulf of California Rift Zone
Lesser Antilles subduction zone
Middle America Trench (Central America)
Motagua Fault (Central America)
Pedro Miguel Fault
Puerto Rico Trench

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