{"id":570161,"date":"2026-03-30T06:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570161\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:07:31","slug":"magnitude-4-3-earthquake-strikes-off-coast-of-northern-vancouver-island-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570161\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 4.3 earthquake strikes off coast of northern Vancouver Island, B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the northern coast of Vancouver Island, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes Canada says it hit about 183 kilometres west of Port Hardy around 10:50 a.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says the earthquake was recorded at a depth of five kilometres, but was not felt and no tsunami is expected.<\/p>\n<p>It says no damage was reported and none is expected.<\/p>\n<p>The quake comes after a 4.3 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of northern B.C. on Wednesday that also did not cause any damage.<\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes Canada says earthquakes between a magnitude of 3.5 and 5.4 are often felt, but rarely cause damage.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cheknews.ca\/author\/canadian-press\/\" 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\/1756572607_861_cropped-e9742b82fd5979eddc056f6990da02cd-best-logos-canada-1-80x80.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\tThe Canadian Press (CP) is a national news agency that provides news coverage, pictures, video, and other multimedia content to media organizations across Canada and around the world. Founded in 1917,&#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\/canadian-press\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by The Canadian Press\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 magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the northern coast of Vancouver Island, B.C. Earthquakes Canada says it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-570161","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\/570161","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=570161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}