Tuesday, Feb. 28, marks the 22-year anniversary of the damaging Nisqually earthquake rattling western Washington.
On the sunny morning of Feb. 28, 2001, just before 11 a.m., the ground suddenly began to powerfully shake, building in intensity, as a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck 11 miles below the Nisqually Delta. The epicenter was northeast of Olympia, but it was felt in Tacoma and Seattle and even as far away as Oregon, British Columbia, eastern Washington, and Idaho.
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More than 400 people were injured, though only one person died of a heart attack. The damage, however, was
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