SEATTLE — There are no immediate reports of damage from a 4.5 magnitude earthquake that rattled the Seattle and Puget Sound area at 5:25 a.m. today. But it woke a lot of people up.
The U.S. Geological Survey says it was centered 16 miles northwest of Seattle near Kingston, in Kitsap County.
The Geological Survey initially reported it as a 4.6 quake, but the University of Washington report on the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network listed it at 4.5.
The network shows it was felt throughout the Puget Sound area in Western Washington, and people reported feeling it in Victoria, British Columbia, 71 miles to the north.
The shaking woke up Robert Lyden on Anderson Island in Puget Sound.
“It shook the house like something had hit the roof,” he said. “It just woke us up.” Other than knocking a water fountain off his deck there was no damage.
Lacey Menne says it shook her home as she was preparing to go to work at the Coastal Cafe in Kingston.
“It wasn’t strong enough to make anything fall,” she said. “It was like, what is that? I think it might be an earthquake. It’s totally an earthquake!”
Seattle radio and TV stations report callers around the Puget Sound area felt the shaking for 10 or 15 seconds.
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