CONFIRMED earthquake felt in Sooke, 11:39 pm Tues Dec 29
Did anyone else feel that? About a minute of shaking here in Sooke.
From Earthquake Canada, the quake occurred at 23:39 PST: “Approximate Location of Earthquake: Lightly felt in southwestern BC. There are no reports of damage, and none would be expected.”
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From NWS Tsunami Alerts
Tsunami Info Stmt: M4.8 085Mi NW Seattle, Washington 2339PST Dec 29: Tsunami NOT expected #NTWC
— NWS Tsunami Alerts (@NWS_NTWC) December 30, 2015
Screen capture from the Sooke PocketNews Weather page.
From Earthquakes Canada’s Twitter feed
Automatic detection of seismic event: magnitude 5.1 – 29 Dec 23:39 PST – TACOMA, WA region
— Earthquakes Canada (@CANADAquakes) December 30, 2015
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earthquake felt from Olympia, Wash USA up to Sechelt, BC and everywhere in-between, here in Shirley only lasted a few seconds, impact differs depending where you are…downgraded to 4.7 after various initial readings by monitors of between 3.2 and 5.1…have felt stronger shaking w/lower magnitudes in California…
If you want to hear what it sounded like, I uploaded Video Surveillance of the actual sound as heard here in Sunriver, search on Utube “earthquake Sunriver Sooke BC 29 Dec 2015”
Yes and although it wasn’t major, it was quite significant and alarmed me. Dogs were shaken too.