6.7 magnitude earthquake strikes S of Port Hardy, Canada

April 2014 – CANADA – A 6.7 magnitude Canada earthquake today 2014 has just struck west of Vancouver. The Canada earthquake today April 23, 2014 began in the evening hours. Damage assessment is pending. Officials tell news that a 6.7 magnitude Canada earthquake today started just after 7:10 pm local time. The quake was shallow and out to sea. USGS indicates to news that the quake started seven miles below sea level. As a result it could be felt to the east on land. Reps tell news the quake was fifty-eight miles south of Port Hardy. It was ninety-eighty miles west of Campbell River. It was roughly one hundred miles west of Courtenay and Port Alberni. Reps tell news that it was two hundred west of Victoria. The same general epicenter delivered a 6.0 magnitude quake on September 3, 2013. As reported on LALATE at the time, that Canada earthquake began one hundred nineteen miles west of Bella Bella. The quake was roughly two hundred miles south of Prince Rupbert and west of the Campbell River. The quake was about four hundred miles northwest of Victoria and three hundred miles west of Terrace. In May another quake struck the country. That quake was sixteen miles northeast of Shawville. It started thirty-five miles east of Pembroke, forty miles northwest of Gatineau. Officials also tell news that the quake was forty-three miles northwest of Ottawa and forty-six miles east of Petawawa. –La Late