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6.1 is sizeable, but I have to confess I wasn't too worried since I knew abaya had been through earthquakes before. I'm still glad to hear you're all all right and doing well and weren't too shaken up by it.
And abaya, we felt the Nisqually quake all the way down here in Oregon! The makeup of the soils in the Willamette Valley is such that it transmits seismic waves quite well (too well in some places...if we ever had a huge earthquake portions of the Valley would liquefy). I was walking across a field at my university at the time of the earthquake and didn't feel it myself, but I noticed that none of the birds were in the trees and thought that was quite odd. When I got to class, everyone was outside, all stirred up because they had to evacuate the buildings and check everything. After class, I returned to my dorm to find that the earthquake had moved my bed (which I had lofted on my desk and a wide windowsill) four inches. Scary! Minor earthquakes were relatively common when I was a kid in Washington, so I wasn't really bothered by it, but it certainly woke a lot of people up down here to the very real idea that we could have an earthquake--and a big one--here.
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