A tsunami advisory for areas along the B.C. coast was lifted in the early morning of July 30, after a powerful earthquake occurred in the Pacific Basin close to Kamchatka, Russia.
The B.C. government noted the cancellation on its emergency information page July 30, after previously issuing a tsunami advisory for B.C.’s north and central coasts, including Kitimat and Bella Coola, Haida Gwaii and the west and northeast coasts of Vancouver Island.
The earthquake happened on the afternoon of July 29 around 135 kilometres southeast of the city of Petropavlovsk in the east of Russia, leading to a tsunami advisories for B.C. as well as Alaska, areas on the U.S. West Coast, and many areas of the north Pacific all the way to New Zealand….