PORT ANGELES — People across the North Olympic Peninsula reported feeling a bump or a shake and a shiver when a 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit near Vancouver Island at about 11:39 p.m. Tuesday night.
No tsunami watches were in the effect after the quake, which was about 12.5 miles north of Victoria in the waters off the Saanich Peninsula, near Sidney Island, according to the Victoria Times-Colonist.
It was about 26 miles deep, according to the United State Geological Survey.
People in Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend and Port Ludlow and as far away as Olympia and Bellingham reported feeling the quake on the USGS website.
KING 5 said that its newsroom received reports of people feeling the quake from the San Juan Islands to Bellevue.
Victoria residents reported houses shaking. The quake was felt along the southern British Columbia coast and throughout Vancouver Island, according to Canadian news sources.
Earthquake Canada said there have been no reports of damage, and “none would be expected,” according to CBC News of British Columbia.
KOMO News received reports from people in Ferndale, Bellingham, Mount Vernon, Sequim, Seattle, Graham and Port Angeles.
“Just went to bed and all of a sudden my bed shook a little,” Greg Roberts in Port Angeles told the news station.
“And I sat up and said ‘what in the world?’ and it was like a rolling feeling. And then the second one shook the bed so strong, didn’t know what to think. It was just unbelievable to be shook up like that.”
Hector Girr of Port Angeles also told KOMO of feeling the quake.
“I felt a huge tremor. It bounced me side to side,” Girr said. But no damage at his house either.
“All of a sudden it felt like somebody was moving our couch,” added Cindy Carter of Orcas Island. “There was no damage — it was about a 3-second shake.”
In Anacortes, some neighbors reported a few pictures knocked off shelves due to the shaking.
All of a sudden my whole house was out of control,” said Kellen Lamborn of Anacortes. “And it continued and it got worse and worse. It woke up the whole neighborhood.”
Earlier this evening, a quake was reported in Southern California.
The magnitude-4.4 quake hit in foothills northwest of San Bernardino about 5:38 p.m. at a depth of about three miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
