Showing posts with label 4.3 quake west of Northern Vancouver island. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 3, 2019

4.3 magnitude earthquake Friday night, West of Port Hardy

Another in a string of frequent earthquakes was recorded Friday
night off the northern coast of Vancouver Island


The Pacific fault line just off shore of Vancouver Island rumbled a bit on Friday evening, as a 4.3 magnitude earthquake was recorded 171 kilometres West of Port Hardy.

The temblor was located in much the same location as similar sized quakes in the region, Friday evenings quake had a depth of 10 kilometres and was listed as taking place at 9:11 PM

No Tsunami threat was generated by the Friday evening incident.

Further notes on past seismic activity can be found from our archive page.