Did you feel it? Quake rattles near Whatcom s border with Canada Wednesday morning
The Bellingham Herald 13 hrs ago David Rasbach, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.)
Jun. 16 A small earthquake rattled just north of Whatcom County Wednesday morning, just 17 miles north of the U.S.-Canada border.
The quake initially was measured with a 2.6 magnitude, according to the U.S. Geological Survey s web page on the quake. It struck at 8:25 a.m. June 6, approximately 7.6 miles east-northeast of Maple Ridge, B.C. That s approximately 21 miles north of Lynden and 35 miles away from downtown Bellingham.
The quake was measured 12.1 kilometers beneath the earth s surface, but as of Wednesday afternoon nobody had reported feeling it on the USGS Did You Feel It? web page and no damage was reported.
Jun. 12 A 3.9 magnitude earthquake rattled the eastern Olympic Peninsula early Saturday. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network pinpointed the quake approximately 25 miles northeast of Satsop, west of Highway 101 in Skokomish and south of Lake Cushman. It occurred at 4:12 a.m. Pacific Time. It was measured at a depth of 30 miles, the agency said. In 1999, a 5.7-magnitude quake occurred nearby, .
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It’s time to make sure your phone will get Washington’s new ShakeAlert early earthquake warnings By Laurel Demkovich, The Spokesman-Review
Published: May 20, 2021, 7:29am
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OLYMPIA Washington residents with a cellphone in their pockets could have a short, but possibly critical warning before they feel the next big earthquake.
Earlier this month, Washington joined California and Oregon in using the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeAlert system for earthquake early warning. The program, which has been in the works since 2006, picks up shaking from sensors built across the state and sends alerts to residents nearby seconds before the ground starts moving. Depending on where they’re located in proximity to the epicenter, cellphones will receive a warning seconds or tens of seconds before the ground shakes.