On Thursday, the Vancouver Island area of British Columbia, and US states on the West Coast experienced minor quakes. The chain of events seemed to have started off the Japanese Island of Honshu.
UPDATE at 23:09 GMT
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/28/vancouver.quake/index.html
The quakes are
minor according to experts and may have been related to a 5.1 Magnitude quake off
Japan yesterday.