{"id":128115,"date":"2025-09-08T05:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128115\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:42:05","slug":"4-8-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-b-c-s-central-coast-no-damage-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128115\/","title":{"rendered":"4.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off B.C.\u2019s central coast, no damage expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 4.8 earthquake occurred Sunday morning nearly 200 kilometres west of the community of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bella-bella\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bella Bella<\/a> on British Columbia\u2019s central coast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca\/recent\/2025\/20250907.1500\/index-en.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Earthquakes Canada<\/a>, said the quake, which happened at a depth of 10 kilometres, struck just after 8 a.m. No damage has been reported and none is expected.<\/p>\n<p>The federal agency said quakes with a magnitude of less than 5.4 rarely cause damage.<\/p>\n<p>Environment and Natural Resources Canada said in <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/warnings\/report_tsunami_e.html?mesoCode=tsu3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a post online<\/a> that no tsunami warnings have been issued for coastal areas of the province.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-figure__image\" alt=\"A map from Earthquakes Canada shows the location of the magnitude 4.8 earthquake that occurred Sunday morning off B.C.'s central coast.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/earthquake.jpg&amp;w=12&amp;h=12&amp;crop=1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/earthquake.jpg\"   data- data- width=\"495\" height=\"498\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tA map from Earthquakes Canada shows the location of the magnitude 4.8 earthquake that occurred Sunday morning off B.C.\u2019s central coast.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCredit: Earthquakes Canada\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Bella Bella is located about about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Small waves, big test: B.C.\u2019s tsunami alert system proven effective after Russia quake'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WEB_6P_RUSSIA_TSUNAMI_IMPAC_OM01FP6R.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:30<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSmall waves, big test: B.C.\u2019s tsunami alert system proven effective after Russia quake\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude 4.8 earthquake occurred Sunday morning nearly 200 kilometres west of the community of Bella Bella on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[70302,49620,49,48,12645,295,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-128115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-bc-news","9":"tag-bella-bella","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-earthquake","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}