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| The largest of the day's earthquakes along the Alaska coast was located off shore of the city of Sitka |
The seismic plates are shifting to the north of Prince Rupert this afternoon with a string of quakes ranging from a high of 5.7 magnitude at 1:32 this afternoon Pacific time to others listed at the 2 to 3 magnitude level recorded before and after the larger one of the afternoon.
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| It has been a busy twenty four hours for seismic activity to the North of Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii |
The 5.7 magnitude quake was located 218 kilometres to the west of Sitka, 652 kilometres to the northwest of Prince Rupert.
It had a depth of 11.9 kilometres. There was No Tsunami Warning generated by this afternoon's seismic activity.
Shortly after 2 PM, Emergency Info BC had issued the all clear for the province.
The temblors of today are just the latest in what has been a string of small to moderate earthquakes to the North and South of Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii.
You can track some of the recent activity from our archive page here.
