||| FROM KOMO-TV NEWS |||

If you felt some shaking while making your Monday morning coffee, you weren’t imagining things. People across western Washington felt it, too.

At 5:02 a.m., a 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck near the town of Olga on Orcas Island, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN). The preliminary magnitude was 4.6.

Of course, people who live on Orcas and other islands in the San Juans felt the most severe effects of the quake.

Orcas Island viewer Jennie Joplin called KOMO News and said it felt like a tree fell on her house, but then she heard from KOMO News it was an earthquake.

“It was terribly frightening! We live on Orcas Island, right across the water from the epicenter,” a Facebook post from Candace Carter E. Roseberry said.

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