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Minor quake strikes near Mount Rainier
AP ^ | October 8, 2006 | AP

Posted on 10/08/2006 7:59:10 AM PDT by Brilliant

SEATTLE - A magnitude 4.5 earthquake rattled homes east of Mount Rainier on Saturday night, but no injuries or damage were immediately reported.

The quake struck just before 8 p.m. about 7 miles east of the mountain's summit, said Tom Yelin of the University of Washington Seismology Laboratory.

Yelin said he did not think the quake was associated with any volcanic activity.

Residents in Packwood, Maple Valley, Enumclaw and Renton reported feeling the earthquake, which was followed by two smaller aftershocks.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquake; ranier; seattle; volcanos
Just a small one.
1 posted on 10/08/2006 7:59:12 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
I felt some tremors earlier today.

I don't think it was an earthquake, though. Some noise accompanied the shaking.

;-)

2 posted on 10/08/2006 8:01:59 AM PDT by Allegra (Super Elastic Bubble Plastic!)
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To: Brilliant
"Yelin said he did not think the quake was associated with any volcanic activity."

Let's see, earthquake within 10 mi. of large volcano. Earthquake not associated with volcano?

3 posted on 10/08/2006 8:02:01 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: Paladin2
Let's see, earthquake within 10 mi. of large volcano. Earthquake not associated with volcano?

There's plenty of purely tectonic seismicity in Western Washington that has nothing to do with volcanism at all.

4 posted on 10/08/2006 8:04:44 AM PDT by Strategerist (Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves)
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To: Paladin2

Entirely possible that there's no connection. Lots of faulted areas in that location, and earthquakes are not uncommon.

Proximity doesn't equal causation.


5 posted on 10/08/2006 8:09:04 AM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: Allegra
I don't think it was an earthquake, though. Some noise accompanied the shaking.

Tamales and a big bowl of Menudo the night before?

6 posted on 10/08/2006 8:12:06 AM PDT by Recovering Hermit (There's another old saying Senator..."Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.")
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To: Brilliant

For crying out loud. 4.5?! That is not even news.


7 posted on 10/08/2006 8:13:01 AM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: Allegra
I don't think it was an earthquake, though. Some noise accompanied the shaking.

Ted Kennedy?

Rosie O'donut?

8 posted on 10/08/2006 8:21:42 AM PDT by LasVegasMac (Islam........not fit for human consumption.)
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To: LasVegasMac; Recovering Hermit
Ted Kennedy and Rosie are good guesses, as is the menudo (like I would eat that...yecchhh) but my guess is something connected to Muqtada al Sadr.

That's been the explanation du jour for tremors in my neighborhood of late.

9 posted on 10/08/2006 8:25:47 AM PDT by Allegra (Super Elastic Bubble Plastic!)
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To: Brilliant

Bush" Fault ?????


10 posted on 10/08/2006 8:40:51 AM PDT by Jeffrey_D.
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To: RobRoy
For crying out loud. 4.5?! That is not even news.

Any earthquake near Rainier is news. If it ever erupts, a good part of Seattle may go.

11 posted on 10/08/2006 8:45:01 AM PDT by gotribe (It's not a religion.)
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To: gotribe

>>Any earthquake near Rainier is news. If it ever erupts, a good part of Seattle may go.<<

Which is just more proof that it IS a real estate bubble!


12 posted on 10/08/2006 8:46:52 AM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: Paladin2

>>"Yelin said he did not think the quake was associated with any volcanic activity."

Let's see, earthquake within 10 mi. of large volcano. Earthquake not associated with volcano?<<

"Volcano" and "volcanic activity" are two completely different things that just start with the same letter.


13 posted on 10/08/2006 8:47:59 AM PDT by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Naziism was in 1937.)
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To: Brilliant

More info here... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1715682/posts


14 posted on 10/08/2006 8:49:14 AM PDT by tubebender (Growing old is mandatory...Growing up is optional)
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To: gotribe
If it ever erupts, a good part of Seattle may go.

Not really.

It's a significant danger to some of the distant suburbs to the south of Seattle that have gotten more built up in recent years, and a much smaller risk to Tacoma.

However, it doesn't have to erupt - it just has to collapse.

15 posted on 10/08/2006 9:10:08 AM PDT by Strategerist (Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves)
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To: Strategerist
We felt the quake here in Kingston.

I agree about your assessment. The biggest problem area would be the Cedar/Duwamish water sheds and the Harbor Island fill in Seattle.

Puyallup & Tacoma would feel the brunt on the Western side if the eruption came this direction, Yakima and the fruit growing areas in the East would see mega change if it blows East.

I have a buddy who lives in Orting, they have all kinds of drills and early detection devices to educate the residents that when the volcano blows, boogie down!
16 posted on 10/08/2006 9:38:36 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: bigfootbob

The Electron Mudflow, which Orting is built on top of, apparently occured without any eruption from Rainier at all.


17 posted on 10/08/2006 9:44:50 AM PDT by Strategerist (Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves)
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To: Allegra

Rap concert?


18 posted on 10/08/2006 9:59:09 AM PDT by xarmydog
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To: gotribe
If it ever erupts, a good part of Seattle may go.

There is no "good part" of Seattle.

19 posted on 10/08/2006 11:28:50 AM PDT by hadit2here ("Most men would rather die than think. Many do." - Bertrand Russell)
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To: RobRoy

It's not the magnitude it's the proximity. They aren't making a big deal of it in Seattle news but still, when you live 80 miles from something known to blow it's top, it can give cause for concern.


20 posted on 10/08/2006 4:47:48 PM PDT by Delmont
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