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Related: About this forum20 years ago today: 6.8 Nisqually earthquake rocked Western Washington
Many Western Washington residents still remember where they were when the shaking started on Feb. 28, 2001.
Twenty years ago today, Western Washington was rocked by the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake for approximately 45 seconds. In less than a minute, an estimated 200 people were injured. The quake was also cited as the cause for one man's fatal heart attack in Burien.
Damages topped $1 billion, with higher-end estimates as high as $3 billion, according to Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports from that day and History Link. The State Capitol in Olympia and several buildings in Seattle's Pioneer Square suffered.
One of Sea-Tac International Airport's two runways cracked. Debris from buckling buildings smashed parked cars. The facade of the Starbucks headquarters in SoDo even crumbled.
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I was working in Duvall at the time putting up some iron work. I had just stepped of the ladder when it started. My first impulse was to look up and see if what I installed was holding. Looked like it was secure so I got the hell out of the building.
cilla4progress
(24,587 posts)about to board a plane with our then 8 year old for a long anticipated trip to Disneyland!
We saw the belt on the baggage check machine start undulating and the big hanging lights swaying. Everyone was instructed to move away from the large plate glass windows. Trying to exude calm to my little girl, we held hands and walked deliberately across the large waiting area. We were the last to make it to the opposite wall. I felt all eyes on us as time slowed to a crawl, as it often does in these circumstances.
Needless to say we had to reschedule our trip, due, as you point out to the destruction at SeaTac where our connecting flight was.
Lucky for us the day was saved by none other than MISS AMERICA, who was also waiting for a flight alongside us! She was a Hawaiian, and gave our daughter her Lei, which I still have stored in some sort of powder preservative.
True story!
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)good shaking! Then in 1980 I'd just moved from Spokane to western Montana when Mt. Saint
Helens erupted. We got a lot of ash there in Montana plus cautions to quarantine inside. We
want stability and what we get is frisky geology!
MFM008
(19,776 posts)I know it was like quarter to 11 am because it woke me up....bigly.........
I got up got dressed and ran to my parents house to see if there was any damage.
spooky still.