Canada
CAN · 2024 energy mix · renewables 26.3% · fossil fuels 67.4%
Threat reading 46 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, HOLDING. 355 events recorded here in the last seven days, 355 in the last thirty.
That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.
Where its energy comes from
| Gas | 33.6% |
|---|---|
| Oil | 31.6% |
| Hydro | 21.9% |
| Nuclear | 5.5% |
| Wind | 3.0% |
| Coal | 2.1% |
| Other renewables | 0.8% |
| Solar | 0.6% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 26.3% and fossil fuels for 67.4%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Canada is close to balanced on electricity trade.
Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.
Recorded history
NOAA's hazard records hold 21 significant earthquakes, 24 tsunamis and one significant eruption in or just off Canada since 1663.
The deadliest was the 6 December 1917 tsunami (waves to 7 m) (Halifax, Nova Scotia), which killed 2,000 people.
The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 8.1, on 22 August 1949 (Canada: Queen Charlotte Islands).
The most recent entry is the 17 December 2024 tsunami (waves to 2.5 m) (Whitehorse, Yukon).
Across the entries that record a death toll, 2,383 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 December 1917 | tsunami (waves to 7 m) | Halifax, Nova Scotia | 2,000 dead |
| 1774 | earthquake | Canada: Newfoundland | 300 dead |
| 6 April 1908 | tsunami (waves to 15 m) | Notre Dame de la Salette | 33 dead, 40 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 18 November 1929 | tsunami (waves to 13 m) | Grand Banks, Newfoundland | 28 dead, $1 million damage |
| 18 November 1929 | magnitude 7.2 earthquake | Canada: Grand Banks | 28 dead, $1 million damage |
| August 1905 | tsunami (waves to 6 m) | Thompson River | 15 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 25 November 1988 | magnitude 5.8 earthquake | Canada: Quebec: Saguenay, Quebec City | 2 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 20 October 1870 | earthquake | Canada: Quebec: Quebec City, Charlevoix | 2 dead, 16 homes destroyed, damage under $1 million |
| 28 October 2012 | magnitude 7.7 earthquake | Canada: Queen Charlotte Islands | 1 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 28 October 2012 | tsunami (waves to 13 m) | British Columbia | 1 dead |
| 23 June 1946 | magnitude 7.3 earthquake | British Columbia | 1 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 23 June 1946 | tsunami (waves to 9 m) | British Columbia | 1 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 28 March 1963 | tsunami (waves to 5.5 m) | Graham Island, British Columbia | 1 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 1 September 2022 | tsunami (waves to 170 m) | Ecstall River, Bc | - |
| 4 December 2007 | tsunami (waves to 38 m) | Chehalis Lake, Chilliwack | damage under $1 million |
| 22 August 1949 | magnitude 8.1 earthquake | Canada: Queen Charlotte Islands | - |
| 20 November 1933 | magnitude 7.7 earthquake | Canada: Baffin Bay | - |
| 24 June 1970 | magnitude 7.5 earthquake | Canada: Queen Charlotte Islands, British Colombia | - |
| 5 February 1663 | magnitude 7.5 earthquake | Canada: St Lawrence Valley | damage under $1 million |
| 26 May 1929 | magnitude 7.0 earthquake | Canada: Queen Charlotte Islands | damage under $1 million |
| 2 November 2004 | magnitude 6.6 earthquake | Canada: Vancouver Island | - |
| 22 March 1938 | magnitude 6.3 earthquake | Canada: British Columbia | - |
| 1 May 2017 | magnitude 6.2 earthquake | Alaska: Skagway; Canada: British Columbia | - |
| 12 October 2001 | magnitude 6.1 earthquake | Canada: Queen Charlotte Islands | - |
| 27 April 1975 | tsunami (waves to 4.1 m) | Kitimat Inlet, British Columbia | damage $1 to 5 million |
These are the 25 deadliest and largest of 46 entries. A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.
Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.
In the last 30 days
The most recent events our feeds placed in Canada:
- 7 November 2026: Drinking Water — The Village of Medstead
- 7 November 2026: Wind Warning — Inland Vancouver Island, BC
- 7 November 2026: Wind Warning — North Vancouver Island, BC
- 7 November 2026: Coastal Flooding Statement — Vancouver Island Coastline from Cape Scott to Nootka Sound, BC
- 7 November 2026: Coastal Flooding Statement — Vancouver Island Coastline from Bamfield to Clo-oose, BC
- 7 November 2026: Rainfall Warning — Howe Sound, BC
- 7 November 2026: Rainfall Warning — Metro Vancouver - North Shore including West Vancouver and North Vancouver, BC
- 7 November 2026: Wind Warning — Malahat Highway - Goldstream to Mill Bay, BC
- 7 November 2026: Wind Warning — Greater Victoria, BC
- 7 November 2026: Wind Warning — Southern Gulf Islands, BC
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 5 |
| Security | 10 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 0 |
| Natural hazard | 75 |
| Resilience | 82 |
Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.
Other countries tracked
Where the data comes from
Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.