Canada Day rocked for some communities in coastal Nova Scotia, with a magnitude 3.6 earthquake striking off the province’s southwest shore.
Natural Resources Canada confirmed the quake struck just after 3:30 p.m. AT on Wednesday.
The epicentre of the quake was close to the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, about 60 kilometres west-southwest of the fishing community of Digby and 101 kilometres south-southwest of Saint John, N.B.
The trembling was felt in a number of southern N.S. communities, including Clare and Yarmouth, but there were no reports of damage, according to the government agency.
The region is not prone to significant seismic activity, but there were two smaller quakes in the area in the past two weeks — a magnitude-2.5 quake cen 2.9 earthquake centred 38 kilometres southeast of Digby on June 20.
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