B.C. provincial authorities say the province’s coast is not at risk after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula around noon Pacific Time on Sept. 18.
The earthquake struck about 9.6 kilometres under the water, around 410 kilometres southwest of Bering Island, Russia, prompting tsunami warnings for Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and the Amchitka Pass from the U.S. National Weather Service.
In a Sept. 18 statement around 1 p.m. Pacific Time, B.C.’s emergency management office said, “The [U.S.] National Tsunami Warning Center has advised that no zones of coastal British Columbia are at risk from this event. Repeat, no zones of coastal British Columbia are at risk from this event.”…