Open Earth

Canada

Natural hazards, earthquakes, volcanoes, weather warnings and conditions across Canada, with every town we track. Updated automatically from official sources.

Notable events, 12 months

5

Quakes, 12 months (all sizes)

6

Strongest quake, 10 years

M6.3

Active now

0

Storms, fires, floods and more

Hazard summary for Canada

In the past 12 months Open Earth recorded 5 notable hazard events in Canada: 4 earthquakes, 1 flood. Seismic networks logged 6 earthquakes of all sizes over the same period. The strongest earthquake in the last ten years measured magnitude 6.3. There are 24 volcanoes in Canada.

By hazard

Notable events in the last 30 days and 12 months.

Notable events by month, last 12 months

Temperature and air quality history

The extremes across every city we monitor in Canada, day by day.

Daily highest and lowest temperature, last 30 days

Each bar runs from the coldest low (teal) to the hottest high (orange) recorded anywhere in Canada that day.

23°C-2°C
16 Oct18 Oct

Worst air quality each day

16 Oct18 Oct
Hottest day on record
21°C / 70°F
Surrey · 16 Oct 2026
Coldest night on record
-1°C / 30°F
Québec · 18 Oct 2026
Worst air on record
AQI 72
Surrey · 17 Oct 2026

Monitored cities, hottest first

Records since tracking began on 16 Oct 2026. Hourly modelled values from Open-Meteo, stored permanently by Open Earth.

Recent activity

Notable events in Canada in the last 90 days.

Strongest earthquakes on record

Magnitude 2.5 and above, since 1900.

Deadliest disasters in history

Damaging earthquakes, tsunamis and eruptions in Canada, from NOAA records going back centuries.

  • Tsunami, Halifax, Nova Scotia

    6 December 1917Waves up to 7 m2,000 killed9,000 injured

  • Earthquake, Newfoundland

    1774Triggered a tsunami300 killed

  • Tsunami, Notre Dame de la Salette

    6 April 1908Waves up to 15 m33 killed40 homes destroyed

  • Tsunami, Thompson River

    August 1905Waves up to 6 m15 killed

  • M5.8 earthquake, Quebec: Saguenay, Quebec City

    25 November 19882 killed50 injured

  • Earthquake, Quebec: Quebec City, Charlevoix

    20 October 1870Triggered a tsunami2 killed16 homes destroyed

  • Tsunami, Skagway, Ak

    4 November 1994Waves up to 9 m1 killed$25m damage

  • Tsunami, Graham Island, British Columbia

    28 March 1963Waves up to 5.5 m1 killed

  • M7.3 earthquake, British Columbia

    23 June 1946Triggered a tsunami1 killed

  • Tsunami, Whitehorse, Yukon

    17 December 2024Waves up to 2.5 m

Satellite fire detections

Heat signatures spotted by NASA's VIIRS satellite instrument in Canada. These include wildfires, farm burning and industrial heat.

Satellite fire detections are being connected. Counts for Canada will appear here automatically once the feed starts.

Regions of Canada

12 regions and 295 towns tracked.