Initial reports had the quake at a magnitude of 4.6, but it was revised a short time later to 4.1, according to the Natural Resources Canada website.
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Emergency Info B.C. took to social media to say the quake was “lightly felt” around Vancouver and Victoria. There were no reports of damage, but many Postmedia reporters said the quake rattled them out of their sleep.
Postmedia spoke with Lucinda Leonard, an associate professor at the University of Victoria who specializes in seismic and tsunami hazards, to better understand what to make of these two recent quakes.
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Leonard, who has lived in the region since 2001, said it was unusual for two earthquakes that people could feel to occur in such quick succession.
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“These two that I’ve felt in the last 10 days are, I think, the strongest ones that I’ve felt in my whole time here,” she said.
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She said, as far as she’s aware, the last time there was a “cluster” of similar earthquakes was in the late 1990s.
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But, given the seismic activity in the region, Leonard said having back-to-back earthquakes wasn’t unexpected.
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Leonard said there were a number of smaller aftershocks following the Monday morning earthquake. Such aftershocks should typically trail off over the next few days or weeks.
