Barry Carlson has only once before, walked in on a earthquake in progress on Delta Colleges Sesmic instruments.

                 A stickler for details, Barry had come back to Delta College during Spring Break to check on his equipment, and

                was rewarded with a rare opportunity to observe an earthquake from the relative safety of being 2000+ miles from the epicenter

                of the quake.  Those closer to the epicenter, reported that the ground and buildings just seemed to roll.  As luck would

                 have it this was a deep Subduction Earthquake caused by the downward movement  of the Juan de Fuca Plate, this quake

                occured 52 km beneath the surface of the earth, which may have greatly reduced the potential damage at the epicenter.

                 Barry has provided his data here, for students interested in Earthquakes.                    Quake.pdf

                                                                                                                                                          ( You will need adobe acrobat to open this file).

              Seattle-area Mac developers--and at least two Mac resellers--reported that they're shaken but otherwise doing fine

               after a major earthquake hit the area at 10:55 a.m. Pacific time. The temblor, reported to have a magnitude between

            & nbsp;6.2 and 7.0, was centered 35 miles southwest of Seattle.

              News services reported only minor damage at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., near Seattle. M icrosoft

              chairman Bill Gates, speaking to an education and technology conference at a Seattle hotel, was reportedly whisked

               away by Microsoft personnel as the quake struck. Workers at the RealNetworks campus in Seattle said the quake

              rattl ed their offices but that they were otherwise doing fine.

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