1933 Baffin Bay earthquake 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake The 1933 Baffin Bay earthquake struck Greenland and the Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), Canada with a moment magnitude of 7.7 at on November 20. The main shock epicenter was located in Baffin Bay on the east coast of Baffin Island. Shaking was only felt at the small town of Upernavik, Greenland. The event is the largest recorded earthquake to strike the passive margin of North America and is the largest north of the Arctic Circle. No damage was reported because of its offshore location and the small population of the nearby onshore communities. The region around
West Coast Sentinel to 1954, accessible using Trove, the on-line newspaper retrieval service. West Coast Sentinel West Coast Sentinel is a weekly newspaper published Thursdays by Australian Community Media in Ceduna, South Australia. It was first founded in mid-1912, and has been published continuously since then. It is now part of the Fairfax Media group. The" "West Coast Sentinel (subtitled: ""circulating throughout the Great West Coast. Eyre's Peninsula."") began publication in Streaky Bay on Friday 28 June 1912. At the time, its publishers hoped that the paper's reach would extend beyond its initial region stating, ""...although the journal is to be published at