Bang, Bang, Bang! M6.6, M6.8 and M6.5 earthquakes hit offshore Vancouver Island, Canada, near Cascadia Subduction Zone within 40 minutes

Monday, October 22, 2018
By Paul Martin

StrangeSounds.org
Oct 22, 2018

Three earthquakes with magnitudes larger than M6.0 (M6.6, M6.8 and M6.5) hit off Vancouver, Canada, near the Cascadia Subduction Zone… And that in only 40 minutes! Although very shallow there is no tsunami risk.

The series of strong quakes started at 5.39am UTC (10.39pm local time) with a M6.6 quake 218km SW of Port Hardy, Canada and reported by at least 40 people on the USGS homepage.

This first shallow shaking was followed, 30 minutes later, by a stronger M6.8 tremor almost at the same spot, 197km SW of Port Hardy, Canada. Shakings were reported by at least 75 people on the USGS homepage.

Finally, the third strong tremor, a M6.5, hit at 6:22am UTC (11.36pm PDT), 223km SW of Port Hardy, Canada.

The 3 quakes are likely due to horizontal strike-slip faulting on the Sovanco transform fault that offsets the Juan de Fuca Ridge.

The quake was not in the Cascadia subduction zone and did not trigger any tsunami warnings.

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