


Coverage of the earthquake also interrupted an hour of Seinfeld – the two-part Bottle Deposit episodes of Season 7 – and Northwest residents missed out until the shows were released on DVD in 2006.ġ995: A magnitude 5.0 earthquake shook Seattle and was felt from Canada to Yakima on January 29. "It was a tremendous, tremendous shock," Dave Niehaus, who was broadcasting the Mariners game against the Cleveland Indians, told CNN. It was centered about 20 miles northeast of Duvall. on May 2, 1996, a 5.3 magnitude earthquake shook Washington and Northern Oregon.
Big weather events on dec 26 2001 earthquake full#
( See the full text by Walt Crowley and sources here.)ġ997: At 9:04 p.m. The quake is the strongest since 1949, although a "weaker" 1965 temblor caused more damage and was blamed for seven deaths. Hardest hit structures are located in Olympia, including the State Capitol, and in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square. The 40-second quake, calibrated at a magnitude of 6.8 on the revised Richter Scale, injures an estimated 200 persons in the region, and is cited as the cause of a fatal heart attack in Burien. on February 28, 2001, a deep earthquake centered near the Nisqually Delta northwest of Olympia startles the entire Puget Sound region and causes more than $1 billion in damage to area buildings and roads. Here is a recap of some of the big ones, primarily from .Ģ001: At 10:54 a.m. Seattle and the Northwest have had several large earthquakes.
