Earthquake stories abound. I was going to have lunch with a friend downtown when he called and said he had to get back to the office in Emeryville. He got there just in time to ask his secretary to stay a minute late and Xerox some papers for him. She might have been dead on one of those bridges that came down.—she was one car behind those killed.
Nice to live in Western WA where the worst problem is fire. Bad enough.
Western Washington is part of the Cascadia Fault zone where the 9.0 is expected.