Earthquake downstairs...

[kayshapero]

About 9:56 pm, there was a sound like either a very small earthquake or someone driving by, but the house didn't shake enough for the latter. So after a bit I checked the  USGS "Did You Feel It?" site to see if someone had reported one and they had*. Rated about 2.7 on the Richter Scale; won't be surprised if that goes down in a bit - it was teeny.

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Quake shakes

[u_must_b_joking]

I live in a fault zone in BC and we actually picked out the location of our housing on the basis of the earthquake charts. I stayed in the same area in my rental house. Hard pan on bedrock here....

I was in an earthquake upgraded building at the top of a mountain during the Nisqually quake and it felt like an elephant on a pogo stick went by behind my desk; hubs and a visiting girlfriend didn't even notice, less than 5 miles away, and they were sitting under a chandelier, so they likely would have. Tremors are weird.

The idea that it was directly under your house is rather charming, in a mildly scary way.

Re: Quake shakes

[kayshapero]

Not the first time; we had a series of 2-3.whatever earthquakes a couple of years ago nearby, which I mentioned in this journal. Click on "earthquake" in the taglist to the left and it'll show you the posts I made at the time. Felt like being at one end of a large commercial building when someone backed into the loading dock at the other end. Single, sharp "wham!"