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Originally posted by MaskedMan
6.3?? Yikes... that's kinda major. If that was more inland.... ugh.. I shudder to think 
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Luckily it was pretty deep at 9.3 miles. A 6.2 close to the surface would have been nasty..but probably even then only the coastal areas would have really been affected.
That's why on 2/29/01 Seattle was spared. That was like a 6.8 I believe we had here (epicenter just 90 miles south of Seattle), but it was really deep. When it hit that morning and I was getting tossed around my apartment (had just got up and had nada on..so was TRYING to get something on to run outside), I thought that half of Seattle had to be leveled because the quake had hit with 3 distinct waves..the first the usual sort of "jiggling" that only lasty 4 or 5 secs..and then WHAM like someone had pulled the carpet out of under you followed by another one..the last two shakers lasted about 40 secs..but it seemed like 40 friggin mins!
We were SOOOO lucky that the quake was so deep!