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Friday, September 9, 2011

Breaking News Did You Just Feel the Earth Shake?

Posted by Goldy on Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:55 PM

Dom says he felt the earth shake. US Geological Survey says a 6.7 magnitude quake hit Vancouver Island at 12:41 pm. Did you feel it?

UPDATE: USGS has a whole bunch of great maps, including the following "Shake Map" showing the intensity of ground movement emanating out from the epicenter:

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No, not at all.

But let's just pray it's not a foreshock. !!

Posted by Baconcat on September 9, 2011 at 12:56 PM

I did not. A friend of mine in the U District did. I'm at the Fremont bridge and didn't notice a thing.

Posted by JonnyH on September 9, 2011 at 12:57 PM

I'm on southern Vancouver Island, and we didn't feel anything.

Posted by american on van isle on September 9, 2011 at 12:58 PM

office lights swayed for a bit, but no one here really felt it.

Posted by happy renter on September 9, 2011 at 12:58 PM

Is it even remotely possible that I would have felt that in Eugene? Just a minute or two ago, my windows shook a bit as they do in a strong wind and I looked outside expecting to see the trees blowing around, and it was totally calm, so I though, hmm... was that a mild earthquake?

Posted by Julie in Eugene on September 9, 2011 at 12:59 PM

Nope, but I'm smack on the ground in a brick building. So, there's not a lot of wiggle available.

Posted by evilvolus on September 9, 2011 at 1:01 PM

o.k., the obligatory, "that's what she said." post.

Posted by pissy mcslogbot on September 9, 2011 at 1:02 PM

you'd think, but no.

Posted by Max Solomon on September 9, 2011 at 1:03 PM

Yes! I live on the fourth floor of an old house in Victoria, and felt some gentle shaking that went on a little too long to be a truck passing by. Whenever this happens I look at the time so I can check later. Thanks for confirming!

Posted by Irena on September 9, 2011 at 1:03 PM

Yes, the 1201 building swayed and creaked for about 45 seconds.

Posted by elm+1character on September 9, 2011 at 1:05 PM

May have felt it a bit in Kirkland... I felt my office floor shake a bit. The parking garage is underneath me though so I assumed it was a big truck coming in for a delivery. It could have been either one.

Posted by Queen of Sleaze on September 9, 2011 at 1:05 PM

Nope. Felt nothing in the U District.

Posted by Levislade

on September 9, 2011 at 1:06 PM

My office downtown swayed enough to make me a bit seasick.

Posted by Luckier on September 9, 2011 at 1:07 PM

He who felt it dealt it.

Posted by gloomy gus on September 9, 2011 at 1:07 PM

Well, I'm shaking now, Goldy.

Posted by Dan Savage on September 9, 2011 at 1:08 PM

Blinds swayed and building did a lot of creaking at Union Square

Posted by Mantooth on September 9, 2011 at 1:09 PM

@ 5, if you felt that at 12:41, then that was it. If it was significantly later (that is, if it was literally "a couple of minutes" before you got on and posted), then probably not. USGS isn't showing any other NW earthquakes today (yet).

Posted by Matt from Denver on September 9, 2011 at 1:09 PM

Nope, not a damn thing in Fremont.

Posted by __-00_- on September 9, 2011 at 1:12 PM

Nothing in Bellingham, and we're much closer.

Posted by Subdued Excitement on September 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM

I'm down in SODO today and didn't notice anything. But this building shakes all the time.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on September 9, 2011 at 1:25 PM

Yes! I actually just typed to a friend that "I think there was just a minor earthquake" two seconds after it happened. I live on Vancouver Island, so, yeah. Definite wavering, if not quite shaking.

Posted by stilettov on September 9, 2011 at 1:27 PM

Nothing in South Lake Union (new construction). Darn it.

Posted by hereiswheremynamegoes on September 9, 2011 at 1:50 PM

If you didn't feel the quake, please refrain from posting about it on the internet, nobody really gives a shit if you didn't feel it. It's like saying you didn't see a shooting star ....or didn't hear a plane fly overhead. In conclusion, you are ruining the internets

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on September 9, 2011 at 1:53 PM

Too late, Andy dear. The internets was ruined a long time ago. I think it was the dancing baby animation.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on September 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM

GOD IS MILDLY IRRITATED WITH WESTERN CANADA!

Posted by MacCrocodile

on September 9, 2011 at 2:00 PM

Ah, Catalina. The dancing baby, goatse, being rickrolled, "all your base," gecko45 - I'm not sure there was ever a time when the interwebz weren't ruined.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on September 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM

@17, the internets say that a seismic wave travels at about 5km/s through granite. So an earthquake with an epicenter in northern Vancouver Island might very well not be felt in Seattle for about a minute and a half.

I didn't feel it where I work, but we have construction going on outside the window and it shakes the building like a small, short earthquake several times a day.

Posted by Cascadian on September 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM

Dan @15. Wuss.

Posted by SeattleKim on September 9, 2011 at 3:03 PM

You guys are lucky... we only had a lame ass 4.2 here in L.A. last week. Why does Seattle get all the good ones ?!?

Posted by TreGibbs on September 9, 2011 at 3:28 PM

No one rocks the midi-dress like Carole King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHuxpa4h…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on September 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM

I get the USGS instant messages when an earthquake of magnitude 4 or greater occurs anywhere in the World.

Several 4s in central California and the 6.7 near Vancouver today.

It looks like the West coast is due.

Please don't be idiots Seattle. Just be prepared--Not stupidly scared.

For some reason September is when something big always happens. Fuck September!

Posted by Mark in Colorado on September 9, 2011 at 4:52 PM

aw shit shit shit. a few nights ago i had a very vivid dream of a quake-induced tsunami hitting Seattle. shit. this does not make me feel better.

Posted by onion on September 9, 2011 at 5:37 PM

It wasn't along the subduction zone. If it had been, apparently then it would potentially be considered a foreshock.

Posted by lauramae on September 9, 2011 at 6:55 PM

I'm in Vancouver, but I didn't feel it at all. Though apparently some people up the street did, but they were on a high floor in a largely glass building, whereas I was in a brick one-storey.

Posted by duckgirlie on September 9, 2011 at 11:24 PM

I did, but I just figured that was due to my afternoon routine of rubbing one out.

Posted by Just Jeff

on September 10, 2011 at 12:52 AM

Why do all the Slog and CHS blog posts call it a 6.7 when the data center you both link to say it was a 6.4? The 6.7 was the Nisqually quake in the 90s.

Posted by suddenlyorcas on September 10, 2011 at 8:44 AM