UPDATE from Brendan Cowan
Director, San Juan County Emergency Mgmt: Info on recent quake felt throughout the San Juan Islands is online.

We appreciate islanders going to this link above to report if they felt the quake, and how it felt. That sort of information is very useful to seismologists and emergency management staff.

No danger of tsunami from this quake according to Tsunami Warning Center:https://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/events/PAAQ/2015/12/30/o05ult/1/SEUS71/SEUS71.txt

There are no reports of damage in the San Juans at this time, but minor damage would not be out of the question for a quake of this proximity and magnitude.

This is the largest quake felt in the San Juans in a number of years. Any updated information will be posted to our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/sanjuandem

— by Lin McNulty —

EarthquakeORIGINAL STORY: Tuesday night, December 29 11:39 p.m. my desk chair rumbles. “Earthquake,” I think and immediately brought up the USGS Earthquake website, not totally certain I will find anything. Yep. Nothing.

A few minutes later, however, a red dot appears on the map right next door to San Juan Island. USGS registers a 4.9 earthquake 19km (12 miles) NNE of Victoria, Canada. The quake was 58.7km deep.

As of midnight, there were no reports from the local media in Vancouver regarding damage or injuries, although neither is normally expected during a quake of this magnitude.

Did you feel it? Tell us your earthquake story below in the comments.

 

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