A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook southwestern Canada near Vancouver on Thursday. The epicenter of the quake was around 130 ...

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of B.C.’s Vancouver Island Thursday morning, according to the U.S.

An earthquake struck offshore west of the northern end of Vancouver Island this morning (March 1). The tremor, which the U.S. Geological Survey measured it as a 4.2-magnitude seismic event ...

An offshore quake occurred in the seismically active area west of the northern tip of Vancouver Island this morning. The temblor struck at 5:43 a.m. today (March 2). Both Earthquakes Canada and ...

Crustal earthquakes, whose magnitude may exceed 7 in some cases, occur within the overriding North America plate as it deforms in response to the subduction process. The 1946 magnitude 7.3 event that ...

The Devil’s Mountain Fault Zone lies entirely on the North American plate, which usually generates smaller, shallower crustal earthquakes, but they could potentially be as high as a 7.5-magnitude ...