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Thought the neighbours dropped something enormous? For once, it may actually have been tectonic plates.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck beneath the Pacific Ocean late Sunday night, giving parts of British Columbia an unexpected bedtime wobble. Earthquakes Canada recorded the quake at 11:41 pm on July 19, around 219 kilometres southwest of Port Hardy and roughly 10 km below the ocean floor.
The shaking was reported across northern Vancouver Island and as far away as Metro Vancouver, more than 450 km southeast of the epicentre.
So yes, that mysterious rattle may have been real and not simply the SkyTrain, construction or your upstairs neighbour beginning a midnight furniture rearrangement.
The good news: Earthquakes Canada said there was no tsunami risk. The earth did demand an encore, however, with a magnitude 4.5 quake recorded six minutes later, about 202 km southwest of Port Hardy.
Anyone who slept straight through the whole thing can congratulate themselves on achieving a truly advanced level of West Coast chill.
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