{"id":569373,"date":"2026-03-29T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569373\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:00:16","slug":"no-tsunami-threat-after-4-8-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-near-port-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/569373\/","title":{"rendered":"No tsunami threat after 4.8-magnitude earthquake strikes near Port Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake was measured 180 kilometres west of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island Sunday morning, EmergencyInfoBC says.<\/p>\n

There is no tsunami threat to B.C., the service says.<\/p>\n

The quake was recorded at a depth of five km shortly before 11 a.m. There have been no reports of damage.<\/p>\n

The USGS registered the quake at 4.2.<\/p>\n

This comes only days after a 4.2-magnitude quake was measured in the same region<\/a>. That tremor struck about 250 km southwest of Port Hardy just before 12:30 p.m. on March 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 4.8-magnitude earthquake was measured 180 kilometres west of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island Sunday morning, EmergencyInfoBC says.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-569373","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\/569373","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=569373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}