Masset- Over 1800 people have successfully been evacuated from Masset and Old Masset to higher ground six to seven kilometers away, after a major quake hit the lower part of Haida Gwaii just after 8pm. Saturday night. Kevin Ledroix says when the quake hit he was driving along the highway and thought the wheel nuts had come off his vehicle.

"When I got to the store where I was heading for originally, food had been knocked off the shelves and there was other produce on the floor". "This definitely the biggest shake that I have been through in my time in this region".

We have experienced 65 to 70 centimetre waves since the quake he concluded.