Wednesday’s earthquake off Nootka Sound was the 60th seismic event over the past month in southwestern B.C. — and the largest measured during that time
A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Vancouver Island on Wednesday — the latest and largest in a series of quakes in southwestern B.C. over the past month.
The earthquake was recorded at 8:35 a.m. at a depth of 10 kilometres, with the epicentre about 210 kilometres west of Nootka Sound, according to Earthquakes Canada.
A 2.6-magnitude earthquake was also recorded at 1:25 p.m. Wednesday at a depth of 33 kilometres about 27 kilometres southwest of Tahsis.
The quakes follow a 3.8-magnitude shaker in Haro Strait about 4 a.m. on Sept. 26. That earthquake, centred 11 kilometres east of Sidney and almost 55 kilometres beneath Earth’s surface, was felt by hundreds of people as far north as Nanaimo and Parksville and south to Washington state.
According to data compiled by Earthquakes Canada, Wednesday’s…
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