Magnitude 4.7 earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island, no reports of damage

Magnitude 4.7 quake strikes off Vancouver Island

An official at Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Center laboratory shows a seismic graph from Dec. 18, 2000, on July 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

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A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the coast of Vancouver Island, although there are no reports of damage.

Earthquakes Canada says the quake happened at about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday local time, with the epicentre 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor, about 130 kilometres west of Tofino, B.C.

B.C.'s emergency information system says in a social media post that there were no tsunami threats from the quake.

It was the third and strongest significant seismic event off the B.C. coast this month, after a magnitude 4.3 earthquake near Haida Gwaii on Nov. 3.

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was recorded about 190 kilometres west of Port Hardy on Nov. 2.

Tuesday's quakes occurred in the Cascadia subduction zone, an area of intense seismic activity.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 11, 2026.

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