May 13, 2008 - Herb Draggert from PGC reports significant displacements are taking place at north-western Washington sites. The Mount Olympus site is moving nearly 5mm westward which is significant. The “footprint” of the displacement also seems to be expanding. However, he still doesn’t see much movement north of the Juan de Fuca [...]

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May 12, 2008 - The tremor has moved to along the north coast of the Olympic Peninsula as determined by the automatic locations. Amplitudes are consistently lower on southern Sound stations and higher in the north. The short animated film clip (above) shows the time progression of tremor locations over the past [...]

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I am constantly reviewing quake related data from the USGS and PNSN, especially due to where I live in Washington State and just how prone we are to a major quake related event.
I’ve been reading up on a Episodic Tremor and Slip (ETS) that was believed to have started back in March and expected to [...]

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While the annual Sound Shake exercise on Wednesday produced a simulated magnitude 6.7 earthquake on the Seattle fault, a real, though unfelt seismic event is taking place beneath western Washington.
Earlier in the week, seismographs in the southern Hood Canal area began recording bursts of low-level shaking associated with what is called an episodic tremor-and-slip [...]

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Magnitude 6.4 QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS REGION

This 3rd quake which actually happened first out of the 3 recorded on January 9th, was the largest and occurred on the Juan Da Fuca Plate within the Subduction boundary. The 6.1 nearby actually happened on the Pacific plate boundary roughly 3 hours after the 1st quake hit. [...]

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