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Seattle earthquake accounts...
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... worked a 12 hr shift the nite before and slept through it, but then being a
liveaboard, we often have good waves from the back wash of ships coming and
going here at the port of Olympia. Hubby said the boat he was visiting on was
"hopping" up and down.
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The boat moved vertically. Motion was much faster than normal waves, and was
very little roll, instead almost pure heave (vertical translation with no
rotational component.) A very unnatural feeling movement...
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... dock bouncing faster than the boat. The dock seemed to be undulating north
and south while the roof went east and west. The water fizzed to the point it
looked like my boat was in gear wanting to get the heck out of Dodge. We lost
some water pipes and the parking lot is more mountainous then it used to be....
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... heard a loud rumble and then my boat began to shake violently. I thought a
large powerboat had shifted into reverse and bumped me. I went charging up the
companionway to cuss him out. Instead I saw pilings snapping back and forth
like drinking straws.
I looked up at the clubhouse and condos perched on the slope above us. They
were shaking so violently I thought for sure that at least the windows would
pop out. But within a few seconds it settled down. The only damage I could
find in the clubhouse was a lamp that had fallen off an end table.
This is my 3rd quake on the water. One was very similar to this one in that I
was in a marina and the boat was shaken by the pilings and the dock. The other
one was about this same magnitude, but we were at anchor in the Solomon
Islands. It sounded like a large ferry was passing close abeam, but no rocking
from wakes, no movement at all. When I hurried up on deck I saw the water all
peaked up like meringue on lemon pie.
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... one of our neighbors was home and gave a detailed report. He said his
salon floor started undulating, he looked out and saw the center dock swaying
side to side about a foot each way and moving up and down in a waves. The
finger piers, in turn, were lunging lengthwise, which pulled on the boats in a
forward/backward motion. He said the lake got real choppy and confused, but
not in waves. The chops were 6-8 inches. THEN he said the lake kind of fizzed
and as oxygen bubbles came up, it brought sludge and debris to the
surface...including beer cans.
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