Aw crap

[trystinn]

Two of the three most important fault lines in the Puget Sound, you ask? North and South Whidbey.

Fuuuuuuuuucckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

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[synapsepi.livejournal.com]

I heard about the quake yesterday. What is going on exactly as I haven't heard more? I still vividly remember the 89 quake in the bay area when they kept declaring the big one was going to get us any day and it never did or at least hasn't yet.

[keastree.livejournal.com]

You do live on the Ring of Fire....

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

Say hi to the Juan de Fuca plate for me!

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Yep, but I've always counted on the "no volcanoes on the island" argument. :)

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

By the time it gets up here, it's pretty subtle. In some cases, all you get is a bit of a P-wave vertigo then a small shake. Did you wake up for no apparently reason around that time?

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Oh, ha-ha.

[synapsepi.livejournal.com]

I guess I feel having grown up pretty much smack dab on the San Andreas Fault, that I feel mostly apathetic about earth quakes. They are either going to get me and kill me, or not. Not much else I can do about it. So in terms of the Island, if we get hit, it's sink or swim :P

as to your question, I'm so out of it these days with a young infant that I might have woken up, I don't recall one way or another.

and as someone else pointed out we are on the Pacific Ring. Also, from what I have read the West Coast is very vulnerable to tsunamis. Though I don't know how that would affect us on the Island exactly.

I still recall what the Loma Prieta Earthquake felt like. We were outside at the time. The noise the earth made, and then the way the ground almost rippled was very surreal. I have to say, there was a serious lack of forethought and lack of understanding in some cases when people decided that is was a grand idea to build a whole metropolitan area on fault lines, mud flats, and huge sand dunes. GO GO BAY AREA!

[keastree.livejournal.com]

Should Mount Ranier ever decide to let loose, it probably won't matter. Though, you'll probably be able to drive your car to the mainland.

[synapsepi.livejournal.com]

now that I think about it I was up with Stephen before Jeramy got up for work, so it's possible it was the quake that got us up.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

If the Deception Pass Bridge holds, yes. If not, we're going to be hoping (I would bet in vain) that the WA ferry system keeps running.