Earthquake in Tahsis

I was working on putting up this blog, and about 5:30 in the morning the windows started rattling. At first I thought it was a big wind coming up the inlet, but then the whole house started shaking and I realized it was an earthquake. This was the strongest earthquake I have experienced, having been through a few in Vancouver and one in Fernie in the East Kootenays.

It was enough to shake the house and shift the pictures on the wall, but everything else was fine, my computer, the lights and everything else didn't change. JIm and I headed downstairs to go outside, but it was over before we got to the outside door, and it didn't seem very severe. No additional tremors.

Jim looked it up on the internet, and www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/table.htm
has information on this quake.

I just heard on Global that the earthquake originated on Nootka Island, at the end of the inlet here! What a way to make the news.... also, it was classified as a moderate earthquake, 5.7 according to one earthquake site Jim found.