A minor earthquake was recorded off the B.C. coast on Sunday morning, but no damage was reported as a result.

Earthquakes Canada said the 3.9-magnitude tremor occurred 46 km west-southwest of Daajing Giids, B.C., and was recorded at a depth of 21 kilometres.

No damage is to be expected as a result, and none was reported. Mild shaking was reported near Maude Island, however.

The quake occurred along the Queen Charlotte Fault, a right-lateral, strike-slip fault, where the opposite side of it moves to the right, just like the San Andreas Fault in California.

The fault marks the boundary between the Pacific and the North American plates, Canada’s most seismically active fault zone.

The largest, regional earthquake in that zone was a massive, 8.1-magnitude tremor that occurred on Aug. 22, 1949–recorded with 100 kilometres of Sunday’s tremor.

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