I'd hang that on my wall!

No disagreement on a differently located quake, just want to make sure we're not telling folks all the glacial till this region is built on is cushioning us. It didn't make the Nisqually less intense, the distance did. Someone would've felt the Nisqually more anywhere in the Puget Sound region that's on top of glacial till more than riding it out on bedrock, in the few places that exists.

For how long the Earth has existed it's amazing how much our understanding has grown in just 70 years. Tectonic plates are a relatively recent discovery, thanks to ocean exploration.

But important to note there was liquefaction in SODO. It's a bit amusing to read this and think someone was surprised to find evidence of liquefaction in an area like SODO that is loose fill. It's a given, today. https://www.washington.edu/news/2001/04/17/damaged-chimneys-and-unexpected-liquefaction-from-nisqually-temblor-yield-earthquake-insights-uw-scientists-say/

Beyond building differences what is important to understand is that the way of measuring earthquakes is a logarithmic scale. The difference between 6.8 and 7.5 is significant, logarithmically.

Also Richter isn't used anymore, really, moment magnitude is the scale typically used https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/moment-magnitude-richter-scale-what-are-different-magnitude-scales-and-why-are-there-so-many

Loose soil is typically bad for earthquakes, from what I've read. Is number 2 a guess? Or did you read something that said that?

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Whenever driving in winter conditions I make sure to have emergency supplies in the car such as sleeping bag(s), water, food. Just in case something were to happen and you're stranded waiting for a tow.

I thought we had too many black bears, I'm surprised