Ninth-grade students, including Mahlia Butler, 15, right, take part in a statewide earthquake drill, Tuesday, April 24, 2007, as they drop, cover, and hold under their desks at King s High School, a private school near Seattle in Shoreline, Washington. Credit: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
All shook up: Remembering the Nisqually Earthquake 20 years later Feb 26, 2021
Western Washington was shaken at 10:54 a.m. Wednesday, February 28, 2001.
KUOW s Robert Smith was at the Westin Hotel where Bill Gates was introducing a new version of Windows. A Microsoft leader was speaking when the chairs and tables began to shake. Then the the sound system cut off, the backdrop behind Bill Gates start to sway, and the giant chandeliers in the ballroom began to sway