No tsunami threat to B.C. after M7.4 earthquake off Japan<\/p>\n
Published 9:25 am Monday, April 20, 2026<\/p>\n
Emergency Info BC says there is no tsunami threat to B.C.\u2019s coast after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan Monday.<\/p>\n
The earthquake hit just before 1 a.m. Pacific time (just before 5 p.m. in Japan) on Monday, April 20 off the east coast of Honshu. it was at a depth of 9.6 kilometres.<\/p>\n
Japan issued tsunami warnings that were in effect until just after 4 p.m. local time. It was downgraded to notice of vigilance for the aftershocks.<\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi posted to social media in the aftermath, saying that officials were still determining the damage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No tsunami threat to B.C. after M7.4 earthquake off Japan Published 9:25 am Monday, April 20, 2026 Emergency…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-616993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616993","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=616993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}