[BBQToadRibs2]

Anyone else in the Seattle area in 2001 for the:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake

It was only 6.8 but it brought thew city to it’s knees for days.

[RitchieAprile]

was in my office on the 16th floor downtown seattle down
the street from the Fed Building on 2nd Ave.

scary stuff.

[LibertarianLiz]

Yes, I was, and still am in the Seattle area, for the Nisqually quake. I was on the road, actually. Went to my daughter's HS to do something and was returning home. I had stopped at a red light, and while I was there I noticed that the lights themselves (they were strung across the road on wires) were swaying quite a bit. Then I felt something underneath my car. When I got home, finally, hubby said that when it started he went out in our backyard (he was working from home that day). He told me how the worms were coming up from underground.

My youngest daughter was at a different school when this happened, and she noticed the same thing that the worms were coming up from underground. The kids were freaking out by that.

[moehoward]

Yes. Also was in Burbank hills for the Northridge and was set to move north to Lafayette a few days after the Loma Prieta. After those two in Ca, the few here in Wa state were like kiddie rides.

[know.your.why]

Anyone else in the Seattle area in 2001 for the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake It was only 6.8 but it brought thew city to it’s knees for days.

Yup. Was at my work office in Everett. Was outside seconds after and got to see the barely perceptible rolling motion of the land from me to a few hundred yards off. looked just like an small ocean swell of waves. so amazing. The Earth Is Alive!

[fireman15]

Anyone else in the Seattle area in 2001 for the:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake
It was only 6.8 but it brought the city to it's knees for days.

Yes, my wife and I have been here for every quake that has happened in Western Washington for the past 60 years. The Nisqually quake lasted long enough that my wife and I both walked to a doorway and stood under it on the third floor of our house. Neither of us felt panicked by it.

In 1965 my family had time to walk out of the house before it stopped.

I didn't realize that any place was “brought to its knees” around here by the Nisqually quake. But looking it up I see now that it is claimed that $2 Billion in damage was caused. I know that many old buildings were required to be retrofitted with earthquake mitigation construction devices at great expense. And it was also used as an excuse to tear down and build billions of dollar in new schools none of which suffered much if any damage that I am aware of. Many single story wooden schools were torn down here in the name of earthquake safety.

I do believe that we are overdue for a much larger earthquake that really will pancake a lot of places.

[fireman15]

It was only 6.8 but it brought thew city to it's knees for days.

We had a friend who was a firefighter in Anchorage during the devastating 1964 earthquake there. That truly was a disaster. Fortunately Anchorage was a much smaller place back then and people there were far more self-reliant during that time period.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/05/1964-alaskas-good-friday-earthquake/100746/