Residents across the Greater Victoria Region were rattled by an earthquake that struck just after 4 am on Thursday.

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Collin Paul, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, said the earthquake was "lightly felt" along the south coast of Vancouver Island, between Sooke and Ladysmith, and in Metro Vancouver. "People in Victoria had light shaking, and in Vancouver, we had weak shaking," he said.

The quake was centred near Sidney and D’Arcy Islands, just east of the Saanich Peninsula, according the U.S. Geological Survey.

There were reports of shaking in Victoria and Vancouver, as a magnitude 4.0 earthquake hit early Thursday morning