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Olympic Peninsula rumbles from 3.5-magnitude earthquake

Jul 31, 2016, 12:55 PM

A Magnitude 3.5 earthquake was recorded about 13 miles northeast of Aberdeen. (USGS)...

A Magnitude 3.5 earthquake was recorded about 13 miles northeast of Aberdeen. (USGS)

(USGS)

A Magnitude-3.5 earthquake shook the Olympic Peninsula just before noon Sunday.

The United States Geological Survey reports that the quake was recorded less than three miles from Wishkah, Wash., which is about 13 miles northeast of Aberdeen and less than 41 miles west of Olympia. The earthquake tracker shows the quake hit at 11:53 a.m., at a depth of more than 36 kilometers.

Three people had reported feeling the quake as of 12:50 p.m.

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