West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
Posted on 09/09/2011 12:56:20 PM PDT by dragnet2
West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
Right. Try about a third of the way to Alaska. Almost unpopulated at northern tip of Vancouver Island.
I’m 30 mi. south of Seattle. Felt nothing.
That sucker was close to the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Too close. I hope to God this wasn’t a foreshock. That sucker lets go, and you can count on massive damage throughout Western Washington.
(Those longshoremen in Longview would have to worry about their contracts if a tsunami washes their thug butts out to sea.)
Family in Everett, WA felt nothing. I’m just north of Mt. Rainier - nothing here either of course.
Wifey and niece were there in Victoria just a few days ago on a cruise,, visiting butterflies and the flowers, beautiful place, vancouver island is hugh.. I like the area , maybe not the healthcare but. ;-)
Anyone know what percentage of the time quakes like this are foreshocks.
They were just talking about that.
Actually, it kinda depends.
At the places that the fault run N/S off the coast of Washington state, it’s about 50 miles out from the coast.
And most people who live in Western Washington live on the east side of Puget sound, the Olympic peninsula adds another 60 miles or so distance to the main fault.
So being 100 miles away from the fault is probably a good thing. Whether there was huge damage here would probably depend on how big the quake was, how much linear length of the fault ruptured, and what was the specific ground motions involved.
I went to grad school three years in Victoria then transferred. Is a very pleasant place and winter fairly mild. However, I don’t want to live anyplace now where homo marriage is legal and Christians are persecuted for their beliefs.
Here in Bellevue noone felt anything.
My wife was raised in Everett. We like to get up there when we can. She still has family there but mostly spread out from Arlington to Auburn. We live in Grays Harbor now.
We of course didn’t feel anything either to the east of you but the 2001 Nisqually earthquake was a different matter! Even cracked my driveway way over here.
I thought I felt something here in Renton (just SE of Seattle).
Oh no. That’s one of my favorite vacation spots. I hope The Fairmont and Buchart are okay.
winoneforthegipper I suspect you might already know about it
Ugh. I’ve lived in California all of a month. Now I read this: Studies of past earthquake traces on both the northern San Andreas Fault and the southern Cascadia subduction zone indicate a correlation in time which may be evidence that quakes on the Cascadia subduction zone may have triggered most of the major quakes on the northern San Andreas during at least the past 3,000 years or so.
In Bellingham and didn’t feel anything.
Looks like they are saying it is a 6.4 now.
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