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VANCOUVER — A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck off the British Columbia coast Wednesday night, rattling some homes in a remote community but causing no injuries or major damage.

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The U.S.-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the earthquake hit just after 6 p.m. local time, about 136 kilometres southwest of Port Alice, a community of about 800 people on northern Vancouver Island.

The agency also said the quake was recorded at a depth of about 43.5 kilometres, and no subsequent tsunami was expected.

I thought it was my dog, sitting beside the chair and scratching or something and then realized that actually the chair was shaking

Kevin Cameron, the emergency co-ordinator in Port Alice, said he didn’t feel the quake.

But Andrea Vance, a resident of Winter Harbour, B.C., a remote community on the west coast of northern Vancouver Island, said she did and was sitting in a chair in a bedroom when the rattling began.

“I thought it was my dog, sitting beside the chair and scratching or something and then realized that actually the chair was shaking,” said Vance. “It went on for about 15 or 20 seconds or so.”