Twenty-three years ago was the Good Friday Nisqually Earthquake. At 10:54am, I was sitting with my boss, Gene Pope, in his Amazon.com office near S. Weller and 5th Ave S in Seattle, near the International District. At first, it sounded like a freight train rumbling from the distance and then, the shaking started. The lights were suspended on cables from the ceiling and I remember watching them swing back and forth, swinging wider as the shaking continued. Someone was standing nearby in an area of cubbys and I yelled something like "get under the furniture". I do not recall if he moved or not. After an eternity or two, the shaking stopped and we started to assess what we had. The Seattle bus tunnel was closed for a couple of hours while the engineers checked it for damage. After it opened, I took a bus home and continued work from there.
There used to be an "earthquake rose" but the original seems to have been pulled from the internet. You can read about it here --
https://inhabitat.com/a-beautiful-and-mysterious-rose-created-by-an-earthquake-and-a-pendulum/
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