I feel the earth move, under my… um… butt.

I was sitting in the living room, enjoying a wee dram of Glenmorangie, when I felt the whole house wiggle. I iChatted a friend, who lives in Olympia, which is 100 miles away from here, and asked if he felt it. He said no, so I knew it could not be a very widespread one.

The image above is from a the nearest seismograph from my house in the UW network. It is located in Trafton, just off of Jim Creek road, which is as the crow flies maybe a kilometer from my home.

I have no idea where exactly on the Richter it measured, but my guess would be in the “low fours”.

10 thoughts on “I feel the earth move, under my… um… butt.”

  2. Cool! Lots of small ones (hopefullY) not one big one. We were within half a mile of the Whidbey Quake about a year ago, it was a 3.2, I think. Our property essentially lies over the infamous Whidbey Fault. In the big Nisqually Quake, we were living in out 100 year-old house in Seattle, and we REALLY felt that one. I had just emerged from the shower, literally, and remember thinking “I’m going to be the most embarrassing body they pull from the wreckage in this town.”

  3. The Nisqually quake was awesome. It lasted for SO LONG… just kept rolling and rolling. Easily the longest-duration quake I’ve ever felt.

  4. was sitting on the bog reading iWoz last night and a 5.4 rocked my world…. thankfully it was quite deep but you sort of feel a tad vunerable in that situation!! 🙂

    Jerome

  6. there was a sudden reversal of motion in preparation for rapid exit from the room!

    one day there will be a bloody big one here… I live on a time bomb….

    Jerome

  8. we have our own page downunder ….

    and I get emails of the quakes from the world as well as local

    Jerome – geologist in dim distant past….

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