Second temblor of the week recorded Northwest of Port Hardy

After some relative silence over the last few months, the seismic lines running along the Central Coast have stirred a bit this week.

As we outlined on Wednesday, the area Northwest of Port Hardy recorded a 4.8 earthquake in the early evening of the 29th.

Friday morning another temblor, this one a 4.2 magnitude shift was noted in much the same location, 191 kilometres Northwest of Port Hardy. The second event in two days was recorded at 10:24 Friday morning, listed at a depth of 1.23 kilometres

For more background on seismic events along the North and Central Coast see our archive page here.