Canada earthquake: Four quakes hit off the coast of British Columbia including 6.8 magnitude tremor

The quakes hit off the coast of Vancouver Island
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Jacob Jarvis22 October 2018

Four earthquakes have hit off the coast of Canada in recent hours, according to the United States Geological Survey.

According to the USGS, the four quakes hit between 5.39am and 6.36am GMT on Monday.

This translates to being from 10.39pm to 11.36pm on PDT, the local time zone in the area.

The largest was 6.8 in magnitude, 197km south west of Port Hardy in British Columbia, with a 6.6 and 6.5 also registered.

Then the latest was a 4.9 some 223km south west of the same area on Vancouver Island.

There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quakes and no immediate tsunami warning.

The National Tsunami Warning Center tweeted that a tsunami is "not expected."

Emergency Info BC tweeted: "Multiple #earthquakes felt in parts of #BC, but no reports of damage or injury. NO Tsunami threat."

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