# Bellingham earthquake **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bellingham-earthquake/765351 "2016-09-08T18:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bellingham-earthquake/765351/1 "2016-09-08T18:08:01Z")
[A minor earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.2 jolted Whatcom County near Sudden Valley at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016](http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article100361892.html) > [@](#): > > SUDDEN VALLEY – A minor earthquake jolted Whatcom County residents awake just before midnight Tuesday, Sept. 6… > > Other Twitter users in Canada indicated the shaker was felt widely through the Fraser River Valley. Didn’t hear anything, didn’t feel anything, didn’t wake up. (I’m about 25 miles north.) ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bellingham-earthquake/765351/2 "2016-09-08T18:48:34Z")
Damn fracking. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bellingham-earthquake/765351/3 "2016-09-08T18:52:27Z")
**Johnny** , you of all people ought to know better than to report anything under 4.5. Go back to sleep. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bellingham-earthquake/765351/4 "2016-09-08T22:07:42Z")
_Sudden Valley_ has an earthquake? Conjures up the image of a sinkhole, no? Or salad dressing… but for some reason I don’t want to eat it. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bellingham-earthquake/765351/5 "2016-09-08T23:37:47Z")
3.2??? The ground shakes more when a cement truck drives by. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bellingham-earthquake/765351/6 "2016-09-08T23:46:19Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > **Johnny** , you of all people ought to know better than to report anything under 4.5. Go back to sleep. 😉 > [@buddha\_david](#): > > 3.2??? The ground shakes more when a cement truck drives by. Go back to sleep? I never even knew it happened! Yeah, the only reason I mentioned it is because the ground technically shook, and it was local. Even if I didn’t feel it. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bellingham-earthquake/765351/7 "2016-09-09T00:36:09Z")
Please, I fart 3.2s. ---
**Author:** ![bb49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@bb49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bb49)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2016, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bellingham-earthquake/765351/8 "2016-09-09T05:09:22Z")
But it’s only Bellingham. Hell, I used to chase girls from Bellingham, and I don’t think any of them registered on the Richter Scale.