Seattle had an earthquake early Friday morning!
Port Angeles, Wash. — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 hit deep beneath the Olympic Mountains early Friday, jolting much of western Washington....
A preliminary magnitude of 4.2 was recorded at the Pacific Geoscience Centre in Sidney, B.C., north of Victoria, but that was later revised higher by the U.S. data.
The quake hit at 3:02 a.m. PDT (6:02 a.m. EDT) with its epicentre 50 kilometres in Olympic National Park. It was in the same deep geological structure as the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake that shook Seattle on Feb. 28, 2001.
...And I slept through it. What an incredible anticlimax. My first earthquake, and I'm not conscious to enjoy it.
If I sleep through a volcano, I'm going to be pissed.
I'm told, by the way, that if Mt Rainier did erupt, it would take about four hours for the lava flow to engulph and destroy Seattle in a scene of apocalyptic infernal horror the likes of which have seldom been witnessed. If it should happen, I'll be sure to have my camera ready.
Posted by aloysius at April 26, 2003 12:15 AM |Were you not in Seattle for the 2000 ("Nisqually") quake? That one was definitely not sleep-through-able. Then again, it did occur at about 11:00 in the morning...
Posted by: vaara on April 27, 2003 08:28 AMuh, I mean 2001. I was at work in Redmond when it happened, and rushed home to make sure that nothing had fallen on my dog.
Seems like more than 2 years ago somehow.
Posted by: vaara on April 27, 2003 08:32 AMAlas, I'm a recent import to Seattle. Prior to late August, I was an Iowan. There's not quite so much geological activity out there. Not quite so much...anything, really. Although there is more corn. But I have yet to see corn make the earth tremble like a newborn lamb.
Posted by: lgutzwil on April 27, 2003 11:17 AM