Seattle/Tacoma Washington Earthquake

Kingston/Indianola Washington Earthquakes

Today I got up as usual and turned on the news to find out that we had one earthquake early this morning. Then I got on the computer and found out we actually had two. They were practically right out my window and I didn't even budge, didn't even stop in mid-snor to wonder what was going on, probably didn't even turn over!! Not even my dogs woke me up! Yet on the news I heard lots of stories about people waking up and what they saw and heard as the earthquake went through the ground. Oh, well!





I have two notices from USGS that state:

EQ #1
Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude
4.5 Mcd
Date-Time
30 Jan 2009 13:25:03 UTC
30 Jan 2009 05:25:03 near epicenter
30 Jan 2009 05:25:03 Pacific Time Zone
Location
47.772N 122.556W
Depth
58 km
Distances
3 km (2 miles) NW (313 degrees) of Indianola, WA

EQ #2
Preliminary Earthquake Report
Magnitude
4.6 Mb
Date-Time
30 Jan 2009 13:25:01 UTC
30 Jan 2009 05:25:01 near epicenter
30 Jan 2009 05:25:01 standard time in your timezone
Location
47.890N 122.481W
Depth
5 km
Distances
10 km (6 miles) N (8 degrees) of Kingston, WA

Chief - Livestock Guardian Dog

Chief, with the girls in the background.

Obviously the girls aren't as thrilled about the new addition to their pasture in this shot. I let him move around a bit and then put him in another pasture next door to the girls so they could eye eachother from across the electric fence. As soon as the girls accept him we'll move him in permanently. Right now he stays in the barn at night and the girls are closed up in the nursery so they don't feel so stressed. Chief has been here for almost a week now and the girls are starting to warm up to him, when I take him for walks inside their pen they don't run and a few of them come up to me for loves and to sniff Chief out! I'm encouraged, Chief is too cause I can tell he just wants to be friends.

A friend came over and Chief was a gentleman about her arival, only barked a bit, but when she moved over to the goats to say hi he was really wary and I was pleased to see him concerned for 'his' girls, I think it's only a matter of time before he and the goats are great friends!