Does anybody remember earthquake in Seattle in 2000 or 2001?

[zanne]

I did a search on this, but could only find the largest earthquakes in Washington state. It's important, because I remember reading that Bush wanted to severely cute funding for FEMA, or do away with it altogether. Once the earthquake hit the Seattle area, he had to do a quick turn-around. (I know I'm not having false memories, because I remember that, at the time of the earthquake, there were people on top of the Space Needle). Can anybody out there with a better memory help me out?

[Evergreen Emerald]

1. yes...it was February 2001

When it hit, I was at my desk at work--and quickly jumped under the desk. It went on for a long time. My neighbor's house had structural damage, and my other neighbor had no water. My house had no damage--only a few pictures askew.

I remember that we were allowed to turn in our Federal tax return late due to the quake.

[yewberry]

2. Feb 28, 2001

Called the Nisqualley quake.

I was at the U that day, and the @#!% in charge wouldn't cancel classes. (Not so nice for those of us living off-campus.)

[JohnLocke]

3. Yes, the Nisqually earthquake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisqually_earthquake

[fortyfeetunder]

4. Project Impact -- I think this is what you are looking for.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4811483

[DS1]

5. I don't live there, but I'll ask someone who does, and did live there

[Zomby Woof]

6. Ash Wednesday quake 2/28/01

11:01 AM - I was on my way to a meeting when it hit. 6.8 magnitude.

I signed my lease on a new place that day. I inspected probably a little closer than usual. :-)

It was fun watching the faces of the east coast transplants in the office. :bounce:

[SOteric]

7. Ah, yes...the Ash Wednesday Quake. Made the viaduct

look like a carnival tilt a whirl. (Which, I'm just going to point out, it still does to this very day.)

What you're likely thinking about isn't cuts to funding of FEMA, but Project Impact, which, that very day, Bush submitted budget cuts to congress all but eliminating. Project Impact is an emergency preparedness program. It helps underwrite the costs for cities to hold mock quake drills and meet with engineering, emergency service and medical personnel to plot specific action plans for specific types of potential local emergencies.

[miss_kitty]

8. It was the best ride of the day!

I was thinking I was total pancake filling if it went on much longer. Not only did a bunch of historical brick buildings fall at the time, a couple older brick facades failed during the summer of that year, and those failures were attributed to the quake.

I think the biggest property loss was chimneys in that quake.

"In the days immediately following the quake, the researchers surveyed 60,000 chimneys, block by block, over about 30 square miles. They identified 1,556 damaged chimneys and noted that damage was heavily clustered in certain areas, particularly at the north end of West Seattle and, to a lesser extent, in Bremerton's residential neighborhoods just north of the naval shipyard."

From 'Brick chimneys can double as strong-motion sensors in earthquakes'
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-06/uow-bcc062204.php

[Arugula Latte]

9. We felt it A LOT here in Portland.

I had my then 11-month-old in the car and I was parked. The car was shakin'!

[cmf]

10. I don't remember the FEMA stuff, but I do remember that earthquake

I remember that we could file our taxes late that year b/c of the earthquake. We had zero damage to our house, but we live on rocky soil on a ridge. I remember that it was really dry that winter (dry for this part of the country). People were speculating that the damage in the form of mudslides would have been way worse if it had been wet.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. I remember that earthquake well

because we were in Phoenix getting ready to come back to Anchorage and had to reroute through Portland.

[miss_kitty]

12. Oh right

the windows in the control tower at Sea-Tac blew out...

[zanne]

13. Thanks, everybody!

I never would have found this information on my own. (There have been so many disasters in the Bush administration, it's hard to keep track).