4.8 is plenty good enough to jar your preserves!

Well do I remember riding out the Nisqually earthquake on 28 February 2001. I measured 6.8, and it's epicenter was south of Seattle, near Olympia, the state capitol, but it was plenty strong throughout the area. Reactions and descriptions here (despite the thread title, it wasn't in British Columbia, but they sure felt it there).

Terra isn't quite so firma, I guess.

Don Firth