By KING-5 Staff and AP

SEATTLE (AP) -- There are no immediate reports of damage from a 4.6 magnitude earthquake that rattled the Seattle and Puget Sound area at 5:25 a.m. Friday Pacific time. But it woke a lot of people up.


Seattle residents describe 'rolling' feeling The U.S. Geological Survey says it was centered 14 miles northwest of Seattle, about two miles northwest of Indianola. USGS officials gave a preliminary magnitude of 4.6, but later downgraded it to 4.5.

"We have an initial depth of 29 kilometers, which translates to 18 miles," said Randy Baldwin, USGS. "It's located about 7 miles north of Kingston."

Baldwin said 18 miles is considered a shallow quake and is generally widely felt.

Residents across Puget Sound called into radio and TV stations and logged onto the web to say they felt the quake.

"I woke up to the bedroom windows shaking slightly and the floor felt like it was 'buzzing' or rumbling...no damage but I woke hubby up and told him and he just went back to sleep...but I had said, 'I think we just had an earthquake,'" MaryLou posted on KING5.com.

"I was awakened just before 5:30 am," another viewer posted. "To me, it felt like someone pulling the bed across the room, kind of wavy, or maybe like a huge truck or a train was rumbling by outside. Very strange."

Kristen from Port Orchard told KING TV she felt the quake right away.

"It rattled everything, made some noise and shook everything, but didn't knock anything down," she said. "(It lasted) maybe 30 seconds."

"I was dead alseep and it woke me up, the shaking," said Patti in Granite Falls. "My husband next to me said, 'Yeah, right. You were dreaming.' But we have these real tall dressers with metal ring nobs and they were shaking, rattling, making noise."

The shaking also woke up Robert Lyden on Anderson Island. He said it fell like something had hit is roof. He says it knocked a water fountain off his deck.

Lacey Menne said it shook her house in Kingston as she was preparing to go to work at the Coastal Cafe. She said it shook longer than most little quakes.

From there to Yellowstone and up into Alaska, seems like the Northwest is becoming awfully Seismically unstable.

I remember Grandma Campbell (born 1889) telling me about being in the great San Francisco earthquake in 1906.

She was asleep when the quake hit and she dreamed a tiger jumped onto her bed and shook violently. When she awoke the house was still moving and was the only one on the block that was left standing.

Pretty fascinating stuff.

I wonder if we will see a really large scale eruption in Alaska or Yellowstone or perhaps a large scale quake along the coast?

It's a subduction zone.. of course, it's seismically unstable..

yellowstone sits atop a giant mantle plume and it's eruption frequency is pretty well established. It WILL blow again in the future and it will suck for whoever happens to be living anywhere in the northern hemisphere at the time..

these are natural geological phenomena. we just happen to be here to see them.

what's the big deal?

Do you think this has something to do with, ooooh dare I say it, Global Warming??? If so, you're more the fool than Algore takes us all to be

were you not watching the world series in 1989??

that was kind of a big one..

Gee...no mention of global warming in any post that proceeds yours Raider.

Also missing from the posts above anyone saying that these natural occurrences were unexpected or extraordinary.

You do have a charming ability to read things into others posts and make assumptions about their thoughts don't you?

The big deal is that quakes and eruptions are an example of the amazing natural power of the planet and that we are lucky enough to be here to observe them.

if this were posted in the science and philosophy section, my reply might have been a little different. but it was posted in the politics section, meaning that there should be some political implication to the assertion that

and thank you for the compliment.

my aunt was at candle stick park during that earthquake.
and my uncle was driving on the freeway home

I hope they made it through

Please reread the title of this forum, "Politics, Current News & Events"

Controlling and paranoid much?

nah, you?