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   There are about 5,000 earthquakes recorded in the country each year, most of them small, according to Earthquakes Canada. Here are the 10 biggest earthquakes ever recorded in Canada, many of which occurred in the regions most at-risk for tremors, such as the B.C. coast, the St. Lawrence and Ottawa River valleys and parts of the territories.
   1. Jan. 26, 1700: A 9.0-magnitude quake strikes off the shores of Vancouver Island, Washington and Oregon. The quake destroyed villages, according to oral Native traditions, and caused a tsunami in Japan.
   2. Aug. 22, 1949: An 8.1-magnitude offshore quake near B.C.'s Queen
   Charlotte Islands in the north Pacific was felt across western North
   America. Cows on the islands were knocked off their feet and buildings on the mainland swayed.
   3. June 24, 1970: South of the Queen Charlotte Islands, a 7.4-magnitude temblor strikes.
   4. Nov. 20, 1933: A 7.3-magnitude quake shakes Baffin Bay in what was then the Northwest Territories and is now Nunavut.
   5. June 23, 1946: Canada's largest onshore earthquake, a 7.3-magnitude temblor, rattles Vancouver Island. People run into the streets in Vancouver and Victoria, and three-quarters of the chimneys in the closest communities crashed to the ground. One person died when a boat capsized in a earthquake-caused wave.
   6. Nov. 18, 1929: A 7.2-magnitude quake rattles the floor of the Atlantic, south of Newfoundland. The quake caused a tsunami that killed 27 people on Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula and was felt across the East Coast.
   7. May 26, 1929: A 7.0-magnitude quake strikes south of the Queen Charlotte Islands. The quake was felt as far north as Ketchikan, Alaska.
   8. Feb. 5, 1663: A 7.0-magnitude quake shakes the ground in Charlevoix, in what was then called New France. Masonry in Quebec City was damaged, and landslides were reported in the Charlevoix region and along the St. Lawrence River.
   9. Dec. 23, 1985: A 6.9-magnitude quake rattles the Nahanni region of the Northwest Territories, causing landslides, rock falls and a major rock
   avalanche.
   10. Dec. 6, 1918: A 6.9-magnitude quake shakes the earth off the west coast of Vancouver Island.

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