No damage, injuries reported after earthquake hits off coast of B.C.
Posted July 3, 2019 10:02 pm.
Last Updated July 4, 2019 7:01 am.
LADNER (NEWS 1130) — A 5.8 to 6.2 magnitude earthquake off the coast north of Vancouver Island was apparently felt as far away as the Lower Mainland Wednesday night. The quake hit the Haida Gwaii archipelago region off the coast of B.C. around 9:30 p.m.
The quake’s epicenter was 196 kilometers south-west of Bella Bella at a depth of 10 k.m. Earthquake Canada adds the quake was located 353 kilometres southwest of Kitimat, B.C., and 581 kilometres west-northwest of Vancouver.
According to Emergency Info B.C., there was no risk of tsunami for B.C., and there was no threat of a landslide.
No tsunami threat to #BC https://t.co/6fAq6cxfmy
— Emergency Info BC (@EmergencyInfoBC) July 4, 2019
Chad called in to NEWS 1130 saying he felt the quake in Ladner.
“We were sitting there reading, and our lamps in our room started to sway,” he says. “It made us go outside and take a look around and see if any of the other neighbours had noticed.”
After he felt the quake, he went outside to see if any other neighbours noticed as well.
He said it wasn’t a big shock, and nothing was broken.
“Everything just starts to sway,” he says. “It wasn’t like what you hear of earthquakes, where you get this thud. This was more of everything is starting to sway.”
A 4.0 magnitude aftershock followed more than an hour after the earthquake hit. No injuries have been reported.
Automatic detection of seismic event: magnitude 4.0 – 3 Jul 22:55 PDT – PORT HARDY, BC region
— Earthquakes Canada (@CANADAquakes) July 4, 2019
A 7.8 magnitude shaker just south of Haida Gwaii in 2012 remains the strongest earthquake to hit B.C. in recent years.
– With files from Jonathan Szekeres
