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An official at Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Center laboratory shows a seismic graph from Dec. 18, 2000, on July 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Magnitude 4.7 earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island, no reports of damage

Nov 11, 2026 | 9:00 AM

TOFINO — A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the coast of Vancouver Island, although there are no reports of damage.

Earthquakes Canada says the quake happened at about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday local time, with the epicentre 10 kilometres beneath the sea floor, about 130 kilometres west of Tofino, B.C.

B.C.’s emergency information system says in a social media post that there were no tsunami threats from the quake.

It was the third and strongest significant seismic event off the B.C. coast this month, after a magnitude 4.3 earthquake near Haida Gwaii on Nov. 3.