Posted: 1:56 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, 2012
SEATTLE —
A "microquake," as KIRO 7 Meteorologist Morgan Palmer explained it, hit Puget Sound at about 1:45 p.m. Friday.
The USGS initially measured the quake at 2.6 on the Richter scale, but later downgraded it to a 2.5. It struck at a depth of about 15 miles in an area below the Puget Sound between Bainbridge Island and Seattle.
There were no immediate reports of any damage or shaking as a result of the quake.