The former Montreal East City Hall suffered severe damage to the masonry cladding. More No casualties resulted and little damage was reported. Intensity Report of the November 25, 1988 Saguenay, Quebec Earthquake. References. The 1732 Montreal earthquake was a 5.8 mbLg magnitude earthquake that struck New France at 11:00 a.m. on September 16, 1732. [citation needed] A girl was reported killed from the seismic activity, although Gabriel Leblanc found present information could not substantiate the claim, especially since, if the death was true, it should have been mentioned in the description of the natural disaster by Sister Cuillerier, a staff member of the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, but was not. • A Dec. 26, 1989, earthquake in Quebec's far north Ungava Bay region registered a magnitude of 6.3 and was felt in James Bay. [1] The shaking associated with this earthquake shook the city of Montreal with significant damage, including destroyed chimneys, cracked walls and 300 damaged houses,[2] as well as 185 buildings destroyed by fire following the earthquake,[3] representing approximately 30% of the houses in the city at the time. Drysdale, J. and Cajka, M., 1989. [4], "Natural Resources Canada: The 16 September 1732, Montréal earthquake next to Ontario", "Earthquakes in Canada: Surviving the moderate ones", 1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1732_Montreal_earthquake&oldid=969445535, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 25 July 2020, at 13:30. The 1732 Montreal earthquake was a 5.8 mb Lg magnitude earthquake that struck New France at 11:00 a.m. on September 16, 1732. [1] The 1732 Montreal earthquake is one of the major earthquakes that occurred in the Western Quebec Seismic Zone. Note that the structure is founded on 17 metres of clay and had suffered from excessive settlements prior to the earthquake.