Prince George, B.C. – An earthquake, measuring 6.7, has struck about 25 miles southwest of Port Alice at 8:10 this evening.  It was 11.4 kms deep.

"Did we ever have a shake!"  says Bonnie Overland who runs Inlet Haven B&B in Port Alice. "People were running out of their houses into the street,  one of my neighbours  said they had glass break in their house."  She says it only seemed to last 15 to 20 seconds, "but it is the worst I've ever felt, and I've lived here for 20 years."

 The quake  was felt as far inland as Vanderhoof, where callers to 250News  report the  blinds on the windows in their home, were shaking.

250News has spoken to some people in Masset on Haida Gwaii who say they felt a mild rumble,  "I was doing a puzzle and I felt the  house shake a little" says Margaret Edgars.

250News contacts in Prince Rupert  did not  experience  the earthquake, nor was it felt   by our  contacts in Terrace.

Holly Willgress works at  the Bella Coola Mountain Lodge  in Hagensborg, "The lights were swaying, but it wasn't as bad as ones we experienced in the past."  She says   there was one shaker that actually caused the building to sway back and forth, but not so this time.

** UPDATE:

There have been two aftershocks following the intitial quake.  The first, was at 8:20 pm  and measured 5.0 on the richter scale and was 10 km deep,

The second  happened around 8:41 and registered  4.2 on the Richter.  It was 15 km deep.