Earthquake Activity near Seattle Washington. Bigger Quake coming?
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We're due
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We're hopeful.
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Been hearing that for my entire life, but it's true. Even after the little burp in Olympia 20+ years ago.
Remember that half of downtown Seattle was built on landfill.
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The 2001 quake was not insignificant. It was overshadowed by events later in the year
1965 was a whopper too
1964 almost took out Alaska
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Wait until Yellowstone explodes. Then we're all fucked.
Until then, I look forward to my oceanfront property in Spokane.
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You can't expect the Huskies to win 10 games with the Yellowstone explosion and all. Fisch needs more time.
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Nope, definitely over due even for a little 4.0 shaker that wakes everyone up.
1949 7.1
1965 6.5
1995 5.0
1997 5.3
2001 6.8
Since virtually nothing of real significance. Region has tons of little quakes all the time, but most are deep and aren't really felt.
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This thread is worthless without @DangerJimFormanDawg.
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My memory is that 01 was super deep underground so the damage wasn't nearly what it could've been. Plus, being down in Olympia where there's less to be damaged
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I was in Seattle. Thought the office was coming down
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I happened to have been walking outside on the college campus. Felt like rolling waves under foot and lots of windows banging around.
I happened to participate on some Seattle task forces focused on unreinforced masonry buildings 5-6 years after that earthquake. Thousands of URM's in the city that will come tumbling down pretty quick in a big one, including many schools. After two years of back and forth it was determined that the cost to reinforce every building in the city was insane and the city realized that if they required property owners to do the retrofits those owners would just tear the buildings down and build new. The entire point was neighborhood preservation and safety, so nothing was done.
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I was in a UW library during the 2001 quake. All these books fell. There was a lot of confusion. We went outside, and then I just went home, but they didn't cancel classes, I guess.
My parents' chimney was damaged, and some FEMA guy noticed it and gave them like $5,000 for repairs.
