Vancouver Island faced 5.8 Magnitude EarthquakeAt the Thursday morning Vancouver Island has faced 5.8 magnitude earthquakes. This was strongly built Canada’s Pacific coast rocked the waters west of Vancouver Island. This morning's headliner earthquake near Vancouver Island didn't come alone. Scientists have recorded four more seismic events since 5:37 a.m., when the 5.8-magnitude quake shook things up this morning - and not for the first time this week.

By luckily that earthquake was not more powerful enough to generate a tsunami. At the first capacity indicated that the earthquake was 6.1 magnitudes, but the US Geological Survey corrected it and downgrade it to 5.8 magnitudes.

The envisioning of the quake was located to be about 95 miles ) 153 kilometers) west-southwest of Port Hardy, and about 293 miles (472 kilometers) west-northwest of Vancouver, at a depth of 6.2 miles, at 5:37 a.m. local time (1807 IST) the agency said.

“These earthquakes are too far offshore to be felt on land and too small to generate a tsunami,” Natural Resources Canada said.

“Experience an earthquake every day, but only a rareness of these quakes are manifest and even fewer result hurt,” a British Columbia government Web site on seismic activity said.

"It's nothing to be worried about," said Garry Rogers, an earthquake scientist with the geological survey said Wednesday. "It reminds us that we're in a very active offshore activity area. It's one of the most active in the world."

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