4.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Orcas Island

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4.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Orcas Island
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If you felt a little shaking while making your coffee Monday morning, you weren't imagining things.

If you felt some shaking while you were making your Monday morning coffee, you weren't imagining things. People across western Washington felt it, too.

Orcas Island viewer Jennie Joplin called KOMO News and said it felt like a tree fell on her house, but then she heard from KOMO News it was an earthquake.

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