Earthquakes - are a regular feature of living in Seattle - first one I remember was '49 - we ran outside (not a smart thing to do they say but it's instinct to get out of the building one is in - and that instinct is strong) then we stood huddled together with the next door neighbor as we watched the ground swell like a tidal wave under our feet going from north to south and I happened to look out in the Puget Sound and sure enough there was a huge wave - rolling motion that just kept coming and coming - my fear at that moment was when will the earth open and swallow me up - age 14! We must have rolled for several seconds - up and then back down - and then up - and then back down - seemed like an eternity at the time.
In '65 we had another duzer - but this time I was in the front yard - already outside working on the flower beds - my dog gave it a comic aspect as he ran around to the back of the house barking like crazy to tell whomever it was to quit shaking things up - he never succeeded at finding the source but am sure he thought his barking stint was most effective as it did stop after enough commands from him
Then we had some little ones - in 94 and 95 - the first in 94 I was hanging up clothes when I noticed all six of my kitties sitting around me in a semi circle - had time to think now this is strange behavior - have never seen them do this before - and then it began - swaying, clinking and clanking the lamps, china, glassware, books falling off shelves. We survived. The next in 95 was at the Kingdom Hall - in the Theocratic Service Meeting - people began to run for the door and I found myself barking orders to them to stay put in their seats - really strange behavior for meek mild little me - but even the elders obeyed me. LOL. And that time I really had no fear - maybe I thought we were all safe inside Jehovah's Ark - but I also knew we had telephone and electric wiring poles outside adjacent to the parking lot that could be major danger sources - wooden poles planted in earth topple rather easily and quickly. This one didn't last so long and was milder than those first two I described which were up in the 6 and 7 range as I recall.
Then in 2001 we got a real one - maybe by now I have become ho hum about them because I refused to get excited or try evacuating the store - was shopping for sweet pea seeds with my neighbor and I wasn't about to be deterred from my project. She took hold of my sleeve and pulled me out - I had the seed packet in my hand and kept insisting I had to pay for them - of course there were no clerks at the register - they had already left - shelves of store goods were crashing around us and it finally hit home with me maybe we would be better outside. So I joined the little huddle of people out in the parking lot still clutching my precious seeds - and then remarked there is something wrong with me - I am dizzy - they howled with laughter at me as they informed me the earthquake was still going on - the ground felt like we were standing on a pile of jello pudding - we were in the Puyallup Valley River Basin where the soil is mainly made up of river silt. Has a tendency to reverberate and vibrate to the rumbling. This one was a looong one - seemed like 15 minutes to me but think it was actually only a couple minutes long. And yes I did pay for those seeds but it took me forever to convince the checkout clerk it was safe to return to her spot and take care of me. And my neighbor never quit teasing me about what a numbskull I am -
They say Seattle had a 9.0 on Jan 26th of 1700 whose epicenter was shallow and right under the current sports arena - and that we are due for another in a 300 to 500 year time range. The 300 years time range has expired so it's a bit like waiting for Armageddon.............any day now plus or minus a couple hundred years.
Birkman who has been very successful at predicting earthquakes in the past had some interesting comments on the website extinctionprotocol:2012 and beyond and I've found their free emails of current earthquakes, volcano's, strange happenings in weather, solar flares, massive fish kills, whale beachings, birds dropping out of the sky dead, etc. most fascinating - they don't feed you with a lot of religious garbage like the 2012 feature might indicate but keep it pretty scientific. It's a paradise for any doomsday afficiando.
