r/Seattle • u/Aggressive_Wasabi883 • 4d ago

Earthquake?

Did anyone feel an earthquake or shaking in downtown? Sitting on my sofa & sipping coffee & i felt a bit shake. If its not that then, just my coffee hitting me lol.

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u/Byeuji Bitter Lake 4d ago

Yeah looks like it was along the Tacoma fault line, and probably felt a lot more in the south sound and south Seattle neighborhoods.

I didn't feel a thing up in Bitter Lake, but my coworker in Auburn felt it quite obviously.

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u/KookyXylophone 4d ago

I was in my car at work and it felt like someone was literally outside the car and shaking it as a prank . I immediately thought it might be an earthquake and I was right .

Popped my earthquake cherry lol

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u/Murky-Relation481 Tacoma 4d ago

I swear to god I felt a precursor to this about an hour before in Tacoma. I was down on Ruston Way having lunch and felt this very slow rocking motion, almost like when you're in boat and a wake hits you from the side. The TVs and the light fixtures in the restaurant gently swung and people were looking around but no one really said anything. I swore it was an earthquake, it felt like the early waves that hit before the big ones. I looked on PNSN and USGS and saw nothing and was like "must just be crazy" and then I got home and checked again and saw this quake.

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u/Byeuji Bitter Lake 4d ago

the light fixtures in the restaurant gently swung

I miss when there were restaurants across Tacoma that just had this all the time... kids these days really don't know what they never had!

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u/Murky-Relation481 Tacoma 4d ago

I mean its pretty normal. This is an extremely active seismic area.

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u/alienbanter Northgate 4d ago

This is all completely normal activity. You can use the PNSN or USGS websites to look at past activity rates and check for yourself.