Another sizeable earthquake measured off BC coast

| July 5, 2019 in Provincial

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For the fourth time in 32 hours, a notable earthquake was measured off the coast of British Columbia.

This time, it was a magnitude-5.6 tremor with an epicentre around 200 kilometres west of coastal towns like Port Hardy and Bella Bella.
 


According to the US Geological Survey, it rattled the earth at 5:58 A.M. local time. 

Just 32 hours earlier, a magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck only 4 km south of this morning’s tremor.

The magnitude-5.6 earthquake, a pair of seismic incidents measuring 4.5 and 4.6 on the Richter Scale were also recorded in the same area this morning.

The most recent earthquake was the most shallow of the four with a depth of 5.1 km, says the USGS, but no tsunami warning has been issued.

Data provided by the USGS is preliminary and has the potential to change.

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