A 4.8-magnitude earthquake was measured 180 kilometres west of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island Sunday morning, EmergencyInfoBC says.
There is no tsunami threat to B.C., the service says.
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The quake was recorded at a depth of five km shortly before 11 a.m. There have been no reports of damage.
The USGS registered the quake at 4.2.
This comes only days after a 4.2-magnitude quake was measured in the same region. That tremor struck about 250 km southwest of Port Hardy just before 12:30 p.m. on March 23.