A light earthquake rattled many British Columbians late Tuesday evening.
The tremor sprang from Vancouver Island, just 23 kilometres north of Victoria, at 11:39 p.m. on December 29.
It was felt as far east as the Fraser Valley and as far south as the bottom of the Puget Sound in Washington state.
Natural Resources Canada measured the magnitude at 4.3 on the Richter scale while the U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude at 4.8.
“There are no reports of damage, and none would be expected,” Natural Resources Canada said in a statement.
The B.C. government said there is no threat of the earthquake creating a tsunami.
Meanwhile, B.C. Hydro stated on Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) it experienced no damage to its transmission and distribution systems following the earthquake.
TransLink shut down SkyTrain service on its Expo Line and Millennium Line late Tuesday evening as a safety precaution.
But rapid transit was running once again by just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, according to a tweet from TransLink.
While Natural Resources Canada described this latest earthquake as “lightly felt” an earthquake reaching a magnitude of 9.0 could cost the B.C. economy more than $74 billion in direct and indirect losses, according to estimates from the Insurance Bureau of Canada.
-With a file from Jen St. Denis
