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Two earthquakes rumble West Coast waters: no Tsunami warning

Tobin Dalrymple and Helen Morris, CanWest News Service

Two strong earthquakes erupted off of Canada's west coast in the Queen
Charlotte Islands region, early Saturday.

On Saturday morning there was no Tsunami warning in effect for the
area.

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"We're waiting here with baited breath, three earthquakes and nothing
has happened," said Bruce Turner, warning and science officer at the West
Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center. "We're waiting for the next one
but nothing's happened so maybe that's the end of it." said Turner.

At 3:01 a.m. PST, a 'quake with a magnitude of about 6.5 out of 10
occurred 215 kilometres south of Prince Rupert, B.C., according to Natural
Resources Canada. A tremor earthquake followed with a magnitude of five,
reported the U.S. Geological Survey.

"We issued a Tsunami information statement," said Turner. "This
information statement means there's not a Tsunami but we were letting
everybody know there is a pretty good sized earthquake but not to worry
because it's still too small to generate a Tsunami."
Police in Port
Hardy, B.C. - a community about 200 kilometres east from where the first
and largest earthquake occurred - said that there had been no apparent
damage or injuries as a result of the earthquake.

"Something has occurred off shore ... but I've only learned about it
five minutes ago ... via e-mail from a friend," said Const. Ed Nugent,
adding that he himself didn't feel it and has not heard of any emergencies
resulting from the ground-rumbling phenomenon.

Turner said he is not surprised that nobody on land felt the quakes.

"These earthquakes were located out at sea probably 150 miles from
either Queen Charlotte or Vancouver Island on the BC coast so they're
quite a ways from land," said Turner. "These earthquakes were all pretty
much the same location you wouldn't expect them to be felt very strongly
any place on land."

But if the tremors had occurred on land rather than out at sea it would
have been a different story.

"You would probably have quite considerable building damage especially
from masonary buildings." said Turner. "There might have been some
communications outages a lot of towers might have been knocked down and
that sort of thing if it had occurred on the land."

Early Saturday morning, not many details were known about the
earthquake. "More details will be posted to this website shortly," the
government earthquake agency's website said two hours after the eruptions.

Earthquakes are often recorded near Canada, however a magnitude of 6.5
is uncommonly high for Canadian-born earthquakes. The last five reported
earthquakes in the country had magnitudes between 3.2 and 3.6.

Of the Top 10 biggest earthquakes in Canadian history, according to the
government website, eight out of 10 had a magnitude between seven to 10.
The eighth and ninth each had magnitudes of 6.9, occurring in the North
West Territories and British Columbia, respectively.

Magnitude is a measurement of the amount of energy released during an
earthquake. It is frequently described using the Richter scale. To
calculate magnitude, the amplitude of waves on a seismogram is measured.

©CanWest News Service 2008

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