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Three earthquakes — the largest measuring 5.1 — rattled B.C.’s north coast on Friday morning.

The tremors were barely 10 minutes apart and struck at around 6 a.m.

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The 5.1 quake hit 220 kilometres west-southwest of Bella Bella on B.C.’s north coast at 5:58 a.m.

Two smaller quakes — one measuring 4.9 near Port Hardy, at 5:51 a.m., and 4.7 near the village of Queen Charlotte, at 6:02 a.m. — were also recorded.

Earthquakes Canadasaid there are no reports of damage and a tsunami is not expected.

The U.S. Geological Survey website shows all three occurred at a depth of between five and 12 kilometres and were centred near the northern tip of the Juan de Fuca plate, one of three plates of the Earth’s crust that meet off the B.C. coast.

Alison Bird, a seismologist with the Pacific Geoscience Centre near Victoria, said they are working to determine if the latest tremors are aftershocks from Wednesday’s 6.2 magnitude quake in the same region.