Lasting only a minute, it shook Pioneer Square with vigor and rattled office and convention centers from Seattle to Olympia and beyond. Seattle’s most recent significant earthquake generated nearly two billion dollars’ worth of damage.
“The Nisqually earthquake in 2001 was actually the USA’s most damaging earthquake in the last 30 years,” stated Harold Tobin, the Director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN).
The shock of such a disruptive earthquake helped motivate the PNSN to grow its array of more than 700 monitoring stations across Washington and Oregon…