A good start!
I have family in the Puget Sound area, and in Central Washington. Cousins built the Wenatchee Rock Gardens.
All my firsts cousins in Bremerton and Seattle are retired. Maybe they should move to be with the family in Central Washington. After all, the BIG ONE is coming sometime in the next 700 years.
There is a similar article from may 2018. It stated there is a slightly higher risk of the big one during a slow slip.
The map with the article showed the tremors stopping around Tacoma. This map shows them going down to the Columbia River. That’s close to double the span of these tremors since then.
Maybe Mount Rainier will pop and take out Seattle.
4-6 millimeters?
Oh yeah, I felt that!
I lived on Bainbridge Island for 10 years. We had one earthquake, which made bricks fall from old buildings in Seattle. A good shake, but no injuries or deaths. That was 20 years ago. There will most assuredly be another.
BFD
Earthquakes around here do not affect all areas equally. If you are sitting on the top of a bunch of rocky glacial till generally it is not too bad. The problem areas are where structures are built on top of formerly muddy areas with a lot of fill dirt. This describes much of downtown Seattle. After a few seconds of shaking the ground starts to liquify under the foundations and roads.
The last larger quake we had at our house lasted for quite awhile but we are near the foothills on top of very rocky soil. Our house has three stories and it shook long enough that we got up and stood under a door way. Then we went outside in case we got hit with aftershocks which is common. This was almost 20 years ago. Fortunately the epicenter was far enough from Seattle that it didn’t cause them much trouble.
Did somebody have an illegal outdoors burrito/taco/hot sauce festival?
Stop continental drift now!
They have moved a lot further left than that lately
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