SEQUIM — Residents from Port Townsend to Port Angeles felt a small earthquake measuring 3.6 on the Richter scale Tuesday afternoon,
They reported dishes rattling, furniture moving and lamps swinging.
The quake was centered under the Strait of Juan de Fuca almost halfway between Sequim and Victoria.
The quake, centered 27 miles below the Strait’s seabed, occurred at 1:37 p.m., the University of Washington’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences reported.
There were no reports of damage or injury, but authorities said 10 persons in Port Townsend, 22 in Sequim and two in Port Angeles reported feeling the shaker.
“My windows rattled, and my roof started creaking,” said Gus McDonald of Port Townsend in a telephone call to the Peninsula Daily News.
Said Lois Cahill of Sequim: “No one really knew what was happening, it just shook the dishes in kitchen.”
Peninsula Daily News photographer Keith Thorpe said the quake jiggled his computer monitor at his Port Angeles home.
Some people in the greater Victoria area told CBC Radio they felt two tremors that happened about five seconds apart, accompanied by a loud bang.
