3.5 Magnitude Quake Hits Western Washington
The magnitude 3.5 quake hit at 7:01 p.m. It was centered 11 miles underground.
The quake was felt as far as 60 miles away in every direction.
But surprisingly, most of the people KOMO 4 News spoke with right at the epicenter didn't feel a thing.
"No I didn't, sure didn't," said one resident.
Kevin Row didn't have a clue the ground moved until KOMO 4's John Sharify told him. He immediately asked "where, when?" And when Sharify told him it was centered right underneath his hometown, Row seemed stunned, "no, I didn't feel it."
It was a shaky start to the evening, but overall a calm and happy ending. Ralph Underwood has the right attitude. He says he's not scared "no way, I'm positive, absolutely."
University of Washington Seismologist Tony Qumar isn't surprised to see there isn't any damage and nobody is hurt.
Qumar also says people shouldn't worry about any more immediate shaking. "Usually when they get that deep in the crust we don't have any aftershocks. Plus, this is a small earthquake, it's not like it's a magnitude 5.0 or bigger. We wouldn't expect any aftershocks, but we might get a few."
Seismologists don't believe Thursday's quake is related to the one three weeks ago centered in Bremerton.
"Typically in a year we record many, many, hundreds of earthquakes," says Qumar. "Most of those earthquakes you can't feel, you probably only feel two or three dozen in a year and this would be one of those."
The earthquake is just Mother Nature's way of reminding us we live on shaky ground.