I remember this earthquake! I was in the sixth grade at Dimmitt Middle School, in Skyway. We were supposed to have an earthquake drill that day. Hope I never, ever again, experience that.
We live in Western Washington near the coast, and my dad just happened to be in Seattle for a rare business trip when this happened. He was in a tall skyscraper on the 80-something floor. When we found out that it was major in Seattle, we were panicked because we couldn't get a hold of him. Thanks God he was in a newer building that was built for quakes. He was totally fine.
@@agquaproductions9361 yes, they are, and I'm so grateful that he and everyone else was fine. My dad always taught me that, in an emergency situation, or if something feels wrong, it's far better to look silly by taking precautions in front of others, than to ignore it and end up dead. I used this philosophy when I was working at a large department store and saw a WALL of people running toward the front exit. No sooner had my mind processed what I was seeing before someone yelled, "He's got a gun! He's got a gun!". I couldn't believe how unphased my coworkers were. It was as if nothing was happening at all. I basically said, 'fuck it' and ran as fast as I think I ever have, to the back of the store, toward the swinging doors that led to the warehouse area. People kept running up to me, just an employee, to find out what was going on (dude, I know about as much as you do!), and I yelled, "Just follow me! Run!". The area straight to the left of these doors was the Infants department, and I saw a young mother with her baby. I literally grabbed her by the arm and told her to run, NOW. She's asking what's going on, what's going on, but I couldn't stop and explain--I just said, "Just run. We're far away from him". She immediately starts screaming as we're running. I didn't know people actually screamed like they do in the movies during these types of situations, especially when they have no idea what's actually happening...but I will NEVER forget the screams of that wall of hundreds of people, and the young mother. Myself and a handful of customers ran into the back parking lot, and I took refuge behind a pickup truck. The worst part is that confused and scared customers kept coming up to me, giving away my location, to ask what to do! I finally just started telling them to shut up and hide. Apparently, a man who had been caught stealing was in the custody of asset protection, in their security room, and he suddenly decided he didn't want to wait around for the police to arrest him. He pulled a gun on one of our undercovers, and instead of retreating, the AP guy, who was a veteran, JUMPED on the thief with the gun, and began wrestling with him (I remember seeing the video of it years ago). Eventually the guy got out, drew his pistol, and started running through this massive crowd by the checkouts. The voice I heard was our badass AP guy, CHASING him, and he ran out the furthest exit from the office, terrorizing everyone in his wake. At the time, we had no idea if this was a mass shooter, and my coworkers were in the direct line of fire. Had it been an active shooting situation, they most certainly would have died, and I would have lived. Back to my dad: As soon as he realized they were having an earthquake, despite being in front of very important clients and business leaders, he told everyone to get under the desk. He said that most of them just sat there, looking around at each other, but he dove under the desk, nice suit and all, turned away from the windows, and held onto the leg of this sturdy desk until he was sure the quake was over, AND that there were no major aftershocks. Had the building fallen, they all would have died regardless, but most people who do die in earthquakes, die from falling debris from lights, ceilings, and shelves.
I was driving for work, headed back to the warehouse just south of Seattle when this hit. As soon as I got back I called my mom in Illinois and told her we’d just had an earthquake but I was okay. I knew my family would be blowing up her phone asking if she’d heard from me, and I wanted to make sure they all knew I was fine.
Glad to know that your father was safe. Still, that must've been really scary for you and your loved ones. I was on the topmost floor of my high school in my Math class when this happened. I STILL remember the feeling of the floor rocking back and forth as it continued (my high school was built in the early 80's, so it was made to withstand earthquakes). Nevertheless, in that moment, I thought that, that was the end for me and many, many other people. Fortunately, that wasn't the case, since only one person died during the earthquake, but from a heart attack (still very sad that happened). After the earthquake ended, we exited the high school and rendezvoused outside at the bleachers by the high school field. Eventually, we were told that we were allowed to go home. We got the day off from school the next day since they wanted to check for any damage to see if it was safe for us to return. The day after our day off, we had to go back (much to my utmost dismay, considering how much I hated high school, but I digress). That 6.8 was INTENSE.
I lived on Olympia's east side back then. my house rocked north to south and up and down. we were so lucky that the quake was 33 miles deep. had it been a shallow quake, it would have leveled Olympia.
@@TheAlp. Ii remember them saying the Seattle 2001 earthquakes epicenter was 15 miles higher it would have leveled Seattle, Maybe that's not correct but that is what I remember them saying on TV at the time.
A year late, but think of a nuclear bomb, would you rather it erupt at 33 miles in-depth, or 17 miles? Now multiply that by many thousands of times in strength and you have this earthquake.
Oly! Oly! Oly! Yeah! I've lived there for probably 8 years, total. Although I moved a few times as a child, and grew up mostly in a smaller town, I'll always consider Olympia my true home base. It's a tragedy what's happened to it over the last couple years, with idiots completely destroying our beautiful capital city, and my alma mater (Evergreen) becoming an international embarrassment. But, I still love it, and have high hopes that it'll recover in a few years. These people who did this, only have enough guts to go after the cities that have supported and completely embraced them--extremely liberal places! Ungrateful, entitled degenerates. Oh well...I'm optimistic about the future of Olympia, Portland, and even Los Angeles and San Francisco. We can't afford to lose hope.
I lived in Olympia when this happened. I was only 5 but I remember it vividly...Mostly because it was my birthday and it hit at the exact time my best friend was peeing. Our house was acting like it was about to go down, so my mom ran in the bathroom, picked him up, and ran outside with him. I'll never forget the look on Nates face as he was being run out of my house with his pants around his ankles...still peeing.
I was 13 and at the public library when this hit. I was on the computer when I remember vividly a golden retriever service dog who seemed well behaved like they're usually trained to be, started whining and looked really nervous, started pulling back on his leash and kept turning left then right and would back up again. I remember thinking "aren't service dogs supposed to be better trained than that?" Even his owner asked the dog what he was doing lol Then within maybe 30 seconds, I saw books starting to fall off shelves, then it turned into shelves swaying hard all over the place so books were everywhere, the desks computers were on started flopping all over, monitors spazzed out and as soon as I started to head under the table, the women directly across from me on another computer who clearly was not messin around, just grabbed me up by the front of my hoodie, yelled "UNDER TABLE. NOW!" and pulled me with all she had over the desk toward her and chucked me under with her. Still makes me laugh 🤭 I sat there holding on to that table as I watched the long light fixtures swaying back and forth hoping they were held up by something strong because so many people weren't able to take cover and those suckers looked very big and heavy. I've never seen or felt anything like that before. I felt several when I was a kid as well as a couple in my adult life but that was crazy and we probably felt it hard due to the old building we were in. My mom who was on the other side of the library found me as soon as it stopped and she told me to speed walk to the car because we had to get over the bridge before they closed it off and she was so afraid of worse aftershocks. She hardly spoke on the way home. I heard later they of course closed the bridge down fast and friends of mine from junior high had to take the bus home but they all got stuck on the freeway going through another town in a different direction that they would never go through to get back home and they didn't get home until almost 7pm due to the traffic. Shesh. I worried about my animals the entire way home. They were fine but clocks and frames were thrown off the walls broken and they were so scared, poor babies 🥺
I worked at Frank Russell in Tacoma. I dove under my desk when the office doors started swinging and books on top of file cabinets started falling off. Remember how cell service was knocked out for a few days? We still need landlines.
This is both kinda neat and important for people to see what could collapse, where to shelter, and where to avoid. Interesting how some people still stand around though. C'mon people, kindergarten and elementary school told you to hide under a desk or doorway... Also, why do grocery stores have tons of glass items on top shelves?
I was in Seattle during this quake. Talk about some crazy shit!I was in the University District during at the time at a record shop my friend was working at when the place began to shake we thought probably just a tremor then it got more intense. We ran outside to the street and you could buildings and concrete moving uniformly up and down like waves on the high sea, I mean really the ground felt like water (so bizarre) At that point in time I injected a little humor saying hey everybody I'm surfing the Ave!
That’s because they were waves just like the ocean. The energy released when the ground snaps back in an earthquake reverberates through the ground and quite literally creates waves in the solid ground no different than water.
I was 13 when this earthquake happened. My family and I were on the 3rd floor of the hospital. My mother went in for surgery that morning. It sounded like a low flying jet went by before we felt the shaking. My father and grandfather both looked at each other and was like "earthquake" seconds after it started. We all stood in the metal doorways to ride it out. The lights flickered, stuff fell off walls and the ceiling tiles started to crack. This was the scariest 45 seconds of my life.
I Was in school in gym class I remember it like it was yesterday the hardwood floor started twisting the bleachers were like bucking horses and we all got to the side of of the gym stayed they're the girl next to me was actually singing Tupac Baby Don't Cry
Was still recovering from the 26 January earthquake which hit us in Gujarat, Western India just a month before this earthquake. Can totally relate to what Seattle folks were going through!
I was sorting through a pallet of anodized aluminum extrusions which served as an early warning systems as they began to vibrate against each other. I sought safety under a nearby bandsaw which was bolted to the floor. I had been standing below shelves that had large metal tanks, which were, thankfully, shrink- wrapped in place.
The guy seems more interested in getting a story on the air than the safety of the people there. yes, I was in that earthquake. I was also in the earthquake in Utah in 2020 and in the earthquake in Alaska in 1964.
i was in everett in school. i remember the floor literally moving in waves and the door basically jiggling a lot. i came outside and all the worms were out of the ground
i was home when this one hit (in renton)...the house shook a good solid min...think it kept moving even after the quake stopped (its an older home). i was working at a grocery store during that time & when the quake stopped i went in to see how the store was like since i lived a few blocks away & guess what? they put me to work cleaning up all of the broken wine & shampoo bottles. at least i got paid...it was suppose to be my day off
I remember this quake. Its weird, but I HEARD IT, FIRST, BEFORE I FELT IT HIT. I HEARD THE RUBBLING FIRST Lived in Lacey, Washington in 2001. I.was shocked. It was powerful and intense It was terrifying
It's was a good thing that this happened. PNW started paying more attention to earthquake preparedness and upgrading to buildings. This was one of our small fault lines in the area. Still have the major cascadia were expecting.
@@Amanda3280h no, not the big one. I'm strangely looking forward to that... Yes, I know, I'm strange... And prepared to camp out for a year until FEMA figures out how to get everything up and running again.
I was in the 3rd grade when this earthquake hit. It hit right in the middle of my math class and my teacher screamed drop and cover and I had to ran and slide underneath my desk my teacher was impressed that I did perfectly without hurting myself.
I remember this! I was in 8th grade English class. We’re we’re right in the middle of a book review,When it hit. My teacher was reading and she just stopped and looked, and I was The c one to yell “earthquake “ and we all got under our desks. It shook for like 20 seconds, then you felt the S waves. It literally felt like water
Get on the air, NOW! Haha. I was 8 years old during this and lived in Bothell, WA. I will always remember when I ran downstairs outside and put my ear to the ground. I felt like I was on a boat and I could hear a deep rumble. Something I will never forget. Lets hope the M9 doesn't happen in my lifetime, but that M4.6 in Monroe recently got my blood pumpin!
I remember this well I was in 6th grade and I was at a play in downtown Olympia at the time walking outside their were bricks everywhere and dilapidated buildings. Little 11 year old me was very shook up, figuratively and literally.
A few months over 4 years old, I still remember playing with my hot wheels on the living room table, and suddenly everything started to shake, our patio door sounded like a train. My grandmother had two aquariums at the time, and she tried her best to keep them up right and hold me at the same time as my mother freaked out, my dad trying to comfort her. Long story short, all the fish died, and we ended up with a mess, but luckily my family was okay and the old building we were in held up.
OH YEAH, How can I forget THIS HAPPENING 4 years PRIOR to Hurricane Charley? WHO WAS I WITH? Shelley Allen BEFORE she became Mrs Ortiz (So no disrespect). We were staying with GARY in Silverdale + Jason & Sally. NOW....
I remember this so well. It was during my junior year of high school and I was in the computer lab when it happened. Initially I thought it was a rolling cart that caused the shaking but after a couple of seconds it was clear that it was an earthquake. Never in my wildest dreams would I have had to experience something like this.
I was a sophomore in high school when this happened, and I was in the school gym. The wood floor was doing the wave just after the bleachers started shaking. The very end of the fault line is about 75 feet from my front yard.
I was on the third floor in math class at my high school when this happened. Scared the living daylights outta me! I also remember the floor gently rocking back and forth as it was happening (since my high school was built in the early 80's, it was also built to withstand earthquakes). As we all took cover under our desks, one of my classmates (some dopey heavyset kid) was saying, "Wow! This is COOL!" Then my teacher replied, "Stop it! This is NOT cool!" LOL! Shortly after it ended, we were all told to exit the building. Once everybody was outside and rendezvoused by the bleachers near the football field, school officials informed us that we were allowed to go home. The next day, we had the day off from school since they wanted to check for any damage to see if it was safe for us to return. The day after our day off, we had to go back (much to my disappointment, considering how much I hated high school, but I digress). I still vividly remember it after all of these years.
I thought it was pretty cool - I was 30 at the time. I still think it was pretty cool. but My home was on bedrock, not land fill subject to liquification. No damage except my camera fell off the shelf. went out side and saw the road rolling like a wave.
@@sherimatukonis6016 Yeah, my dad was out driving when it happened and he thought he got a flat tire. It wasn't until he looked up and saw the wires swaying up and down on the telephone poles when he realized that it was an earthquake.
The State Capital in Olympia Cracked with a great big crack - like the Liberty-Bell!~ The rotunda on top was also rotated 360 degrees around while the giant chandelier swung around below it, during the approximate minute or so that it took for the earthquake to pass.
I remember this. I was a young teen in middle school at the time. I was in home room and thought the guy behind me was shoving my desk forward. The last time I remembered an earthquake like that was The Northridge quake of ‘94. I was in 2nd grade at that time.
I remember one time I was in Italy visiting some of my friends who live in Austria, when an earthquake it. Basically, we were eating dinner outside by the pool, when we heard a rumbling noise. We thought it was just a truck, so we didn't think much of it. However, soon the dishes began to rattle and waves began to form in the pool. This kept going for around 10 seconds, but then everything started shaking intensely, the pool water was sloshing all over the place and some clay tiles on the roof began to collapse. I then heard a shattering noise from inside the house and my parents came running out. Then it stopped. We luckily were fine but it was shaking on-and-off for the rest of the day due to aftershocks. Anyway, we slept outside that night because if we were asleep and the house collapsed we would be dead.
I love how everyone is freaking out but in California this is a normal earthquake but i was 3 when this happened don’t remember it at all but I know where supposed to get a major earthquake at some time the Big one which should be vicious Asf this was a 6.8 where supposed to get a 9.5 on god 😂 it’s gonna be mighty but fuck it just stay safe and be prepared just hope to god your not driving or walking on a side walk
A M6.8 magnitude earthquake is not a frequent magnitude recorded in California, and when they do happen they are often pretty devastating events, why you say this seems like normal earthquake, because this 2001 Washington state quake was 33 miles deep underground which produces lower ground accelerations on the ground surface, most of California’s quakes occur within the top 10 miles of the Earth crust producing high ground shaking accelerations, for example the 1994 Northridge M6.7 earthquake was 11 miles deep and was a devastating earthquake!
This is the same shaking you could expect during a Cascadia event, because the Cascadia 9.0 would be in the ocean, so Seattle would be feeling a 6.7 - 7.7 and coastal areas would be feeling 7.9 - 8.8
Funny you mention that. I've got a feeling Cascadia's gonna wake up really soon and rip a massive 9.0 with a tsunami special. With all the earthquakes happening around the world, it's not a stretch to believe such an event could be imminent.
@@rebelfighter5249 For some reason, in the last few months I literally feel like stuff is shaking every day. Maybe thats just my mind but it started a few months ago. Who knows if its small earthquakes, or Cascadia.
I lived in Bremerton but worked in Seattle delivering transmission parts when this happened. I was driving on the 167 between Renton and Kent and it felt like someone grabbed my steering wheel and started yanking it back and forth. I noticed people around me were pulling over, and when I realized KISW was off the air I figured it had to have been a quake. The warehouse I worked out of was a shambles. I remember trying to figure out where I was going to stay because the ferries were shut down and the Narrows bridge was closed for inspection. I managed to make it beck to Bremerton later that evening when ferry service resumed after the tsunami threat had subsided.
I remember this earthquake! I was in the sixth grade at Dimmitt Middle School, in Skyway. We were supposed to have an earthquake drill that day. Hope I never, ever again, experience that.
Hazafan88 woah you went to dimmitt damn I go to Mckight middle school lol
I was in 3rd grade at Benson Hill Elementary😂😂😂
Robert Braun Bryn Mawr? Lol I was living by there but I went to Maple Elementary school in Seattle
We must be the same age I was in Tacoma I was in gym class sixth grade Mcikvaigh
Your going to Homie a even bigger one
I was in my 6th grade classroom out in Buckley. We had a fire drill about 15 minutes before this happened. Crazy that it’s been over 20 years now
We live in Western Washington near the coast, and my dad just happened to be in Seattle for a rare business trip when this happened. He was in a tall skyscraper on the 80-something floor. When we found out that it was major in Seattle, we were panicked because we couldn't get a hold of him. Thanks God he was in a newer building that was built for quakes. He was totally fine.
Glad he wasn’t hurt! Ugh. These are scary.
@@agquaproductions9361 yes, they are, and I'm so grateful that he and everyone else was fine. My dad always taught me that, in an emergency situation, or if something feels wrong, it's far better to look silly by taking precautions in front of others, than to ignore it and end up dead. I used this philosophy when I was working at a large department store and saw a WALL of people running toward the front exit. No sooner had my mind processed what I was seeing before someone yelled, "He's got a gun! He's got a gun!". I couldn't believe how unphased my coworkers were. It was as if nothing was happening at all. I basically said, 'fuck it' and ran as fast as I think I ever have, to the back of the store, toward the swinging doors that led to the warehouse area. People kept running up to me, just an employee, to find out what was going on (dude, I know about as much as you do!), and I yelled, "Just follow me! Run!". The area straight to the left of these doors was the Infants department, and I saw a young mother with her baby. I literally grabbed her by the arm and told her to run, NOW. She's asking what's going on, what's going on, but I couldn't stop and explain--I just said, "Just run. We're far away from him". She immediately starts screaming as we're running. I didn't know people actually screamed like they do in the movies during these types of situations, especially when they have no idea what's actually happening...but I will NEVER forget the screams of that wall of hundreds of people, and the young mother. Myself and a handful of customers ran into the back parking lot, and I took refuge behind a pickup truck. The worst part is that confused and scared customers kept coming up to me, giving away my location, to ask what to do! I finally just started telling them to shut up and hide. Apparently, a man who had been caught stealing was in the custody of asset protection, in their security room, and he suddenly decided he didn't want to wait around for the police to arrest him. He pulled a gun on one of our undercovers, and instead of retreating, the AP guy, who was a veteran, JUMPED on the thief with the gun, and began wrestling with him (I remember seeing the video of it years ago). Eventually the guy got out, drew his pistol, and started running through this massive crowd by the checkouts. The voice I heard was our badass AP guy, CHASING him, and he ran out the furthest exit from the office, terrorizing everyone in his wake. At the time, we had no idea if this was a mass shooter, and my coworkers were in the direct line of fire. Had it been an active shooting situation, they most certainly would have died, and I would have lived. Back to my dad:
As soon as he realized they were having an earthquake, despite being in front of very important clients and business leaders, he told everyone to get under the desk. He said that most of them just sat there, looking around at each other, but he dove under the desk, nice suit and all, turned away from the windows, and held onto the leg of this sturdy desk until he was sure the quake was over, AND that there were no major aftershocks. Had the building fallen, they all would have died regardless, but most people who do die in earthquakes, die from falling debris from lights, ceilings, and shelves.
I was driving for work, headed back to the warehouse just south of Seattle when this hit. As soon as I got back I called my mom in Illinois and told her we’d just had an earthquake but I was okay. I knew my family would be blowing up her phone asking if she’d heard from me, and I wanted to make sure they all knew I was fine.
Glad to know that your father was safe. Still, that must've been really scary for you and your loved ones. I was on the topmost floor of my high school in my Math class when this happened. I STILL remember the feeling of the floor rocking back and forth as it continued (my high school was built in the early 80's, so it was made to withstand earthquakes). Nevertheless, in that moment, I thought that, that was the end for me and many, many other people. Fortunately, that wasn't the case, since only one person died during the earthquake, but from a heart attack (still very sad that happened). After the earthquake ended, we exited the high school and rendezvoused outside at the bleachers by the high school field. Eventually, we were told that we were allowed to go home. We got the day off from school the next day since they wanted to check for any damage to see if it was safe for us to return. The day after our day off, we had to go back (much to my utmost dismay, considering how much I hated high school, but I digress). That 6.8 was INTENSE.
I lived on Olympia's east side back then. my house rocked north to south and up and down. we were so lucky that the quake was 33 miles deep. had it been a shallow quake, it would have leveled Olympia.
i was there to in Seattle UD at the time. I remember them saying if it was 15 miles higher it would have leveled Seattle. What a crazy experience.
@@amp7224 what you mean levelled seattle?
@@TheAlp. Ii remember them saying the Seattle 2001 earthquakes epicenter was 15 miles higher it would have leveled Seattle, Maybe that's not correct but that is what I remember them saying on TV at the time.
A year late, but think of a nuclear bomb, would you rather it erupt at 33 miles in-depth, or 17 miles? Now multiply that by many thousands of times in strength and you have this earthquake.
Oly! Oly! Oly! Yeah! I've lived there for probably 8 years, total. Although I moved a few times as a child, and grew up mostly in a smaller town, I'll always consider Olympia my true home base. It's a tragedy what's happened to it over the last couple years, with idiots completely destroying our beautiful capital city, and my alma mater (Evergreen) becoming an international embarrassment. But, I still love it, and have high hopes that it'll recover in a few years. These people who did this, only have enough guts to go after the cities that have supported and completely embraced them--extremely liberal places! Ungrateful, entitled degenerates. Oh well...I'm optimistic about the future of Olympia, Portland, and even Los Angeles and San Francisco. We can't afford to lose hope.
my mom was pregnant with me and at bingo when this happened. won 500 bucks as the earthquake happened 🤷🏼♀️
liz ding ding ding celebratory fucking earthquake you won $500
same i was born on 2nd august
I live in East Greater Seattle & I'm afraid we are due for another one of these. 😬😨
I lived in Olympia when this happened. I was only 5 but I remember it vividly...Mostly because it was my birthday and it hit at the exact time my best friend was peeing. Our house was acting like it was about to go down, so my mom ran in the bathroom, picked him up, and ran outside with him. I'll never forget the look on Nates face as he was being run out of my house with his pants around his ankles...still peeing.
awww poor thing!
Lol poor guy
Oh my gosh, that is the best story. Hopefully he was able to get beyond the embarrassment and 20 years later you all can have a good laugh.
I was 9 when this happened.
the earthquake itself was actually pretty mild. Not too crazy but it's still somethimg you won't forget.
I was 13 and at the public library when this hit. I was on the computer when I remember vividly a golden retriever service dog who seemed well behaved like they're usually trained to be, started whining and looked really nervous, started pulling back on his leash and kept turning left then right and would back up again. I remember thinking "aren't service dogs supposed to be better trained than that?" Even his owner asked the dog what he was doing lol Then within maybe 30 seconds, I saw books starting to fall off shelves, then it turned into shelves swaying hard all over the place so books were everywhere, the desks computers were on started flopping all over, monitors spazzed out and as soon as I started to head under the table, the women directly across from me on another computer who clearly was not messin around, just grabbed me up by the front of my hoodie, yelled "UNDER TABLE. NOW!" and pulled me with all she had over the desk toward her and chucked me under with her. Still makes me laugh 🤭 I sat there holding on to that table as I watched the long light fixtures swaying back and forth hoping they were held up by something strong because so many people weren't able to take cover and those suckers looked very big and heavy. I've never seen or felt anything like that before. I felt several when I was a kid as well as a couple in my adult life but that was crazy and we probably felt it hard due to the old building we were in. My mom who was on the other side of the library found me as soon as it stopped and she told me to speed walk to the car because we had to get over the bridge before they closed it off and she was so afraid of worse aftershocks. She hardly spoke on the way home. I heard later they of course closed the bridge down fast and friends of mine from junior high had to take the bus home but they all got stuck on the freeway going through another town in a different direction that they would never go through to get back home and they didn't get home until almost 7pm due to the traffic. Shesh.
I worried about my animals the entire way home. They were fine but clocks and frames were thrown off the walls broken and they were so scared, poor babies 🥺
I worked at Frank Russell in Tacoma. I dove under my desk when the office doors started swinging and books on top of file cabinets started falling off. Remember how cell service was knocked out for a few days? We still need landlines.
A much better result than our Bay Area's Loma Prieta quake of similar magnitude.
R.I.P. Chris Legeros
Shelia Rickers 🙏🏾
I was 5 when it hit in kindergarten. My teacher keep us under tables and gave us snacks to distract us 😂
This is both kinda neat and important for people to see what could collapse, where to shelter, and where to avoid. Interesting how some people still stand around though. C'mon people, kindergarten and elementary school told you to hide under a desk or doorway... Also, why do grocery stores have tons of glass items on top shelves?
Damn Brian wanted that scoop
I was in Seattle during this quake. Talk about some crazy shit!I was in the University District during at the time at a record shop my friend was working at when the place began to shake we thought probably just a tremor then it got more intense. We ran outside to the street and you could buildings and concrete moving uniformly up and down like waves on the high sea, I mean really the ground felt like water (so bizarre) At that point in time I injected a little humor saying hey everybody I'm surfing the Ave!
That’s because they were waves just like the ocean. The energy released when the ground snaps back in an earthquake reverberates through the ground and quite literally creates waves in the solid ground no different than water.
@@cnacma I guess like a reciprocal response. The mechanics of physical reality are most amazing
I remember that surfing feeling so vividly!
I was 13 when this earthquake happened. My family and I were on the 3rd floor of the hospital. My mother went in for surgery that morning. It sounded like a low flying jet went by before we felt the shaking. My father and grandfather both looked at each other and was like "earthquake" seconds after it started. We all stood in the metal doorways to ride it out. The lights flickered, stuff fell off walls and the ceiling tiles started to crack. This was the scariest 45 seconds of my life.
I Was in school in gym class I remember it like it was yesterday the hardwood floor started twisting the bleachers were like bucking horses and we all got to the side of of the gym stayed they're the girl next to me was actually singing Tupac Baby Don't Cry
Was still recovering from the 26 January earthquake which hit us in Gujarat, Western India just a month before this earthquake. Can totally relate to what Seattle folks were going through!
I was sorting through a pallet of anodized aluminum extrusions which served as an early warning systems as they began to vibrate against each other. I sought safety under a nearby bandsaw which was bolted to the floor. I had been standing below shelves that had large metal tanks, which were, thankfully, shrink- wrapped in place.
So I was 3 when this happened
The guy seems more interested in getting a story on the air than the safety of the people there. yes, I was in that earthquake. I was also in the earthquake in Utah in 2020 and in the earthquake in Alaska in 1964.
I worked as a nurse at St. Peters Hospital on the 5th floor in Olympia . Scary !
I was working in a restaurant in puyallup .Whole place shook violently.
i was in everett in school. i remember the floor literally moving in waves and the door basically jiggling a lot. i came outside and all the worms were out of the ground
i was home when this one hit (in renton)...the house shook a good solid min...think it kept moving even after the quake stopped (its an older home). i was working at a grocery store during that time & when the quake stopped i went in to see how the store was like since i lived a few blocks away & guess what? they put me to work cleaning up all of the broken wine & shampoo bottles. at least i got paid...it was suppose to be my day off
I swear I heard someone yelling " we need Xanax.
I remember this quake.
Its weird, but I HEARD IT, FIRST, BEFORE I FELT IT HIT.
I HEARD THE RUBBLING FIRST
Lived in Lacey, Washington in 2001.
I.was shocked.
It was powerful and intense
It was terrifying
I have severe Seismophobia because of that quake. It scared the living shit out of me!
It's was a good thing that this happened. PNW started paying more attention to earthquake preparedness and upgrading to buildings. This was one of our small fault lines in the area. Still have the major cascadia were expecting.
So scary if it happens
@@Amanda3280h this ALREADY happened in February 2001. This was just a moderate earthquake, not a big one.
@@sherimatukonis6016 but not the big one right? The one that happened in 1700s 9.0 from cascadia
@@Amanda3280h no, not the big one. I'm strangely looking forward to that... Yes, I know, I'm strange... And prepared to camp out for a year until FEMA figures out how to get everything up and running again.
I was in the 3rd grade when this earthquake hit. It hit right in the middle of my math class and my teacher screamed drop and cover and I had to ran and slide underneath my desk my teacher was impressed that I did perfectly without hurting myself.
I remember this! I was in 8th grade English class. We’re we’re right in the middle of a book review,When it hit. My teacher was reading and she just stopped and looked, and I was The c one to yell “earthquake “ and we all got under our desks. It shook for like 20 seconds, then you felt the S waves. It literally felt like water
Get on the air, NOW! Haha. I was 8 years old during this and lived in Bothell, WA. I will always remember when I ran downstairs outside and put my ear to the ground. I felt like I was on a boat and I could hear a deep rumble. Something I will never forget. Lets hope the M9 doesn't happen in my lifetime, but that M4.6 in Monroe recently got my blood pumpin!
Why would you stand under a beam that has been damage from earthquake? Doesn't make sense to me.
Idk why but “SpAcE Nee dLe” at the end sent me. I remember this quake tho. I was not happy
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I was at work on the 6th floor at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia. I won’t forget it!
I was there. Just woke up and it scared the shit outta me
I remember this well I was in 6th grade and I was at a play in downtown Olympia at the time walking outside their were bricks everywhere and dilapidated buildings. Little 11 year old me was very shook up, figuratively and literally.
A few months over 4 years old, I still remember playing with my hot wheels on the living room table, and suddenly everything started to shake, our patio door sounded like a train. My grandmother had two aquariums at the time, and she tried her best to keep them up right and hold me at the same time as my mother freaked out, my dad trying to comfort her. Long story short, all the fish died, and we ended up with a mess, but luckily my family was okay and the old building we were in held up.
My mom was giving birth when this earthquake happened!
OH YEAH, How can I forget THIS HAPPENING 4 years PRIOR to Hurricane Charley? WHO WAS I WITH? Shelley Allen BEFORE she became Mrs Ortiz (So no disrespect). We were staying with GARY in Silverdale + Jason & Sally. NOW....
I was in Marysville at Pacific Grinding Wheel. All the racks were shaking and were running. We started having earthquake drills shortly after that.
I remember this so well. It was during my junior year of high school and I was in the computer lab when it happened. Initially I thought it was a rolling cart that caused the shaking but after a couple of seconds it was clear that it was an earthquake. Never in my wildest dreams would I have had to experience something like this.
I was a sophomore in high school when this happened, and I was in the school gym. The wood floor was doing the wave just after the bleachers started shaking. The very end of the fault line is about 75 feet from my front yard.
I was 6 yrs old when it happened and I remember it like it was yesterday. I'm traumatized. I'm terrified of earthquakes
I don't blame you. Also, it sounds like you might have PTSD. Living through a natural disaster can also be the cause of that.
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Remember feeling it in Abbotsford BC
I was on the third floor in math class at my high school when this happened. Scared the living daylights outta me! I also remember the floor gently rocking back and forth as it was happening (since my high school was built in the early 80's, it was also built to withstand earthquakes). As we all took cover under our desks, one of my classmates (some dopey heavyset kid) was saying, "Wow! This is COOL!" Then my teacher replied, "Stop it! This is NOT cool!" LOL! Shortly after it ended, we were all told to exit the building. Once everybody was outside and rendezvoused by the bleachers near the football field, school officials informed us that we were allowed to go home. The next day, we had the day off from school since they wanted to check for any damage to see if it was safe for us to return. The day after our day off, we had to go back (much to my disappointment, considering how much I hated high school, but I digress). I still vividly remember it after all of these years.
I thought it was pretty cool - I was 30 at the time. I still think it was pretty cool. but My home was on bedrock, not land fill subject to liquification. No damage except my camera fell off the shelf. went out side and saw the road rolling like a wave.
@@sherimatukonis6016 Yeah, my dad was out driving when it happened and he thought he got a flat tire. It wasn't until he looked up and saw the wires swaying up and down on the telephone poles when he realized that it was an earthquake.
I was in my elementary school classroom.........in Vancouver, British Columbia. We felt it up here too.
뉴스촬영도중에도 지진이네요.
Isn't that Chef John Howie at 3:33 ?
Dang. That building really didn’t like those cars 😳 So lucky no one was in them
Really didn't Ike that 2:07
Who's here after it felt like roomba got a little too aggressive with your couch last night?
My mother gave birth to me 3 days later
The State Capital in Olympia Cracked with a great big crack - like the Liberty-Bell!~ The rotunda on top was also rotated 360 degrees around while the giant chandelier swung around below it, during the approximate minute or so that it took for the earthquake to pass.
Did he die? What the heck
I remember this. I was a young teen in middle school at the time. I was in home room and thought the guy behind me was shoving my desk forward. The last time I remembered an earthquake like that was The Northridge quake of ‘94. I was in 2nd grade at that time.
tell kiro 7 eyewitness news right now l remember this l was a younger in mind shock point right 👉 reporter
oh snap
I remember that was young teen middle school at time l was home 3:37
I remember one time I was in Italy visiting some of my friends who live in Austria, when an earthquake it.
Basically, we were eating dinner outside by the pool, when we heard a rumbling noise. We thought it was just a truck, so we didn't think much of it. However, soon the dishes began to rattle and waves began to form in the pool. This kept going for around 10 seconds, but then everything started shaking intensely, the pool water was sloshing all over the place and some clay tiles on the roof began to collapse. I then heard a shattering noise from inside the house and my parents came running out. Then it stopped. We luckily were fine but it was shaking on-and-off for the rest of the day due to aftershocks. Anyway, we slept outside that night because if we were asleep and the house collapsed we would be dead.
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I was 10 months and asleep when this happened. Wish I could’ve remembered this 😡
I know that news reporter at the beginning of the video he work at the news department in wmar channel 2 in Baltimore
Was born after 9:00am 2001 and my mom told me I almost died
We wont forget it!
their might be a other 9.2 earth qake in Seattle lasting 1 muinet
Not 1 minute, but 6+ minutes
Unicorn Gaming i rather deal with snow than a earthquake , northeast is where im moving
Rho Rho are you actually dumb. Nisqually/ Seattle is located in the northwest
David Marston actually it was 6.2
David Marston that was fake news
I love how everyone is freaking out but in California this is a normal earthquake but i was 3 when this happened don’t remember it at all but I know where supposed to get a major earthquake at some time the Big one which should be vicious Asf this was a 6.8 where supposed to get a 9.5 on god 😂 it’s gonna be mighty but fuck it just stay safe and be prepared just hope to god your not driving or walking on a side walk
A M6.8 magnitude earthquake is not a frequent magnitude recorded in California, and when they do happen they are often pretty devastating events, why you say this seems like normal earthquake, because this 2001 Washington state quake was 33 miles deep underground which produces lower ground accelerations on the ground surface, most of California’s quakes occur within the top 10 miles of the Earth crust producing high ground shaking accelerations, for example the 1994 Northridge M6.7 earthquake was 11 miles deep and was a devastating earthquake!
This is the same shaking you could expect during a Cascadia event, because the Cascadia 9.0 would be in the ocean,
so Seattle would be feeling a 6.7 - 7.7
and coastal areas would be feeling 7.9 - 8.8
Funny you mention that. I've got a feeling Cascadia's gonna wake up really soon and rip a massive 9.0 with a tsunami special. With all the earthquakes happening around the world, it's not a stretch to believe such an event could be imminent.
@@rebelfighter5249 For some reason, in the last few months I literally feel like stuff is shaking every day. Maybe thats just my mind but it started a few months ago. Who knows if its small earthquakes, or Cascadia.
Was 4 when it happened :3
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I lived in Bremerton but worked in Seattle delivering transmission parts when this happened. I was driving on the 167 between Renton and Kent and it felt like someone grabbed my steering wheel and started yanking it back and forth. I noticed people around me were pulling over, and when I realized KISW was off the air I figured it had to have been a quake. The warehouse I worked out of was a shambles. I remember trying to figure out where I was going to stay because the ferries were shut down and the Narrows bridge was closed for inspection. I managed to make it beck to Bremerton later that evening when ferry service resumed after the tsunami threat had subsided.
I live in Bremerton but work deliver happiness to transportation directions
Suddenly 3:28 3:29 3:29 3:29 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Who knows how bad cascadia will be? This is what I’m scared about.
quirkykid770 Cascadia is a subduction zone type of fault line. So when it does let go it’s going to be big.
@@afterdark8126 yup. The CSZ is megathrust city. Not good for the left coast.
I’m ok we shock kiro tv news went Seattle Bremerton
but
Time out!! Dude threw away an unopened bottle grapefruit juice...thats bullshit.could have rinsed it off😅😅
Drama queen newcaster lol😅😅