{"id":213825,"date":"2025-09-09T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213825\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:27:09","slug":"small-earthquake-strikes-lower-mainland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213825\/","title":{"rendered":"Small earthquake strikes Lower Mainland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake struck the Lower Mainland north of Maple Ridge Monday night \u2014 though it\u2019s unlikely residents felt it.<\/p>\n<p>The magnitude-2.6 quake hit around 9 kilometres northeast of Maple Ridge just before 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Earthquakes measured below a magnitude of 5.4 rarely cause damage, according to Earthquakes Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no reports of damage, and none would be expected,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of reports to the service have described the feeling as \u201cweak\u201d to \u201clight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a magnitude-4.8 quake hit off B.C.\u2019s Central Coast. It too was not felt, and there were no reports of damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014With files from Emma Crawford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An earthquake struck the Lower Mainland north of Maple Ridge Monday night \u2014 though it\u2019s unlikely residents felt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-213825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115176462490428945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}