Bean, Father Steve lives practically IN Seattle, but he is fine. Our friend Geoff, 100 miles away, felt it. Our other WA friend lives too far away and did not feel it.
From what I've been given to understand, New Zealand is pretty much smallish "islands" of solidity, in between a
network of fault lines. Terror. That's why, though I would love to visit San Francisco, I would not live there--I'm convinced that at least a third of the state of California is going to slide into the ocean, and I don't want to be there when it does! Of course, southwest Kentucky is near enough to the New Madrid (that's MADrid)
fault line that when it goes, we'll be hurtin' for certain.
But it is dead at the moment (Hi, C.K.), and we've only had two feel-able earthquakes in Louisville in my lifetime.
I watched part of the CNN broadcast during the aftermath.
Whoever this lady was, she absolutely deadpanned this line,
while displaying the list of past bad quakes: "This is how things shake out".
