Powerful Earthquakes Reported Off Canada's Pacific Coast

PORT HARDY, BRITISH COLUMBIA — A series of earthquakes were reported off the coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, Sunday night and early Monday, with the last one measured by the U.S. Geological Survey just before 9:30 a.m.

The first quake, a 6.6, struck at 10:39 p.m. Sunday, roughly 135 miles off the coast of Vancouver Island. The next one, a 6.8, hit around 11:15 p.m. in the same general area — about 122 miles off the coast.

A third quake measured at 6.5 struck a little further out to sea, roughly 138 miles off the coast, six minutes after the second.

Three more quakes, all under 5.0, struck about an hour apart for the next three hours. And at 9:30 a.m. Monday a 5.2 earthquake hit near the area of the first earthquake from the night before.

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Five of the seven quakes (so far) occurred at a depth of about six miles, USGS data shows. The fourth quake, which was the first of the smaller scale quakes, struck about 11 miles deep.

No tsunami warning was issued and no injuries were reported, though the quakes were reportedly felt by many people on the island.

While northern Washington residents also reported feeling the strongest of the earthquakes, so too did a handful of California residents more than 1,200 miles away.

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