{"id":554220,"date":"2026-03-23T00:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554220\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:11:17","slug":"magnitude-4-0-earthquake-recorded-off-west-coast-of-vancouver-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554220\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 4.0 earthquake recorded off west coast of Vancouver Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small earthquake was recorded off the west coast of Vancouver Island Sunday afternoon, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Info BC says the magnitude 4.0 quake struck approximately 261 kilometres southwest of Tofino at 12:23 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000sijy\/executive\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000sijy\/executive\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Geological Survey<\/a> indicates the quake occured at a depth of about 10 kilometres beneath the ocean floor.<\/p>\n<p>No damage or injuries are expected as a result of the quake.<\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes of this size are typically considered light and are often not felt, especially when they occur far offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Island sits along the Cascadia subduction zone, a seismically active region where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is being pushed beneath the North American plate, regularly producing small offshore earthquakes. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say there is no tsunami risk associated with this event.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/author\/jeff-lawrence\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-cropped-Jeff-L-400-x-450-80x80.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJeff Lawrence is a Digital News Editor for\u00a0CHEKNews.ca.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nAfter graduating from Langara College&#8217;s journalism program in 2009, Jeff worked as a digital producer at CTV Vancouver and CTV Vancouver Island&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/author\/jeff-lawrence\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jeff Lawrence\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small earthquake was recorded off the west coast of Vancouver Island Sunday afternoon, according to officials. Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-554220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554220","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=554220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}