Last night’s quake…

My dear mother in California never misses news of an earthquake. I think she even keeps the National Seismograph Network in her internet favorites!…perhaps this is pretty sensible when living just over some hills from California’s famous San Andreas Fault.

Anyway, like clockwork she emailed me about yesterday’s earthquake near Mount Rainier. Here is what I wrote back on the subject….
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Hi Mom! Yes, I totally felt this quake! I was sitting on my couch with my laptop computer, reading emails about the latest controversy at city hall, and I started feeling like I was jiggling around as in an airplane. I called “earthquake” to Cathy and my kids, but most of the kids had been rough-housing and didn’t notice it. I began to wonder if I had been simply feeling the floor thump from the kids, until I saw the news.

Love Randy

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And here is today’s Seattle Times Story

Quake near Mount Rainier registers 4.5; no damage reports

A light to moderate earthquake was widely felt in Western Washington about 7:45 p.m. Saturday. Police in Pierce, Snohomish and Pierce counties had no reports of injuries or damage.

The magnitude-4.5 quake was centered 17 miles north of Packwood, Lewis County, or about eight miles east of the Mount Rainier summit, said Tom Yelin, a geophysicist at the University of Washington seismology laboratory

Yelin said the quake’s size was relatively uncommon for Western Washington and that the quake was about 2 miles deep. He said it probably was not related to volcanic activity on Mount Rainier.

There were two small aftershocks late Saturday, and Yelin said small aftershocks could continue for a few days but likely would not be felt.

The Nisqually earthquake on Feb. 28, 2001, was magnitude 6.8 and was about 27 miles deep. It injured more than 400 people and caused more than $2 billion in damage. It was centered near Olympia.