Just to let you know - I felt an earthquake in Helena!

[keithjx]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/at00000379.htm

I posted in the lounge, but my fiancee and I both felt the house shimee! Anyway, 5.6 ain't much, but it was a bit of a reminder about how minute we are compared to those big mountains around us....
KJ

[merh]

1. This site even provides if Tsunami warnings exist

SEUS71 PAAQ 260416
EQIWOC

TO - TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM PARTICIPANTS IN
ALASKA/BRITISH COLUMBIA/WASHINGTON/OREGON/CALIFORNIA
FROM - WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
SUBJECT - TSUNAMI INFORMATION MESSAGE
ISSUED 07/26/2005 AT 0416 UTC

...THIS IS AN INFORMATION MESSAGE...

EARTHQUAKE DATA
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE - 5.6
LOCATION - 45.5N 112.8W - 215 MILES NE OF BOISE-ID.
475 MILES SE OF SEATTLE-WA.
TIME - 2009 ADT 07/25/2005
2109 PDT 07/25/2005
0409 UTC 07/26/2005

EVALUATION
THE LOCATION IS SUCH THAT A TSUNAMI WILL NOT BE GENERATED.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED.

THE LOCATION AND MAGNITUDE ARE BASED ON PRELIMINARY INFORMATION.
WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER -
WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV. FURTHER INFORMATION WILL BE ISSUED
BY THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - GOLDEN CO -
WWWNEIC.CR.USGS.GOV.
$$



http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message000379.txt

[keithjx]

2. Yep no need up here.

I doubt Canyonferry will need one, but thanks!

[merh]

3. I have a sister in Montana and a brother in California

I like to pay attention to these things. :thumbsup:

Thanks for the heads up and welcome to DU. :hi:

[greendog]

4. I felt it here in Kalispell

The doors inside my apartment were wiggling a little.

[havocmom]

5. My brother in Whitehall said he was teaching a T-Rex to disco

and set the quake off. Thought that was a nasty think to say about my sister-in-law!