Within ten minutes of a magnitude 7.5 earthquake on the Seattle Fault, the first wave of a tsunami might reach Snohomish County. The Edmonds ferry port might experience waves that peak at five feet in 15 minutes.

No doubt, Mukilteo would have some consequences as well.

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently issued a new research examining the effects of a tsunami brought on by a significant earthquake on the Seattle Fault, which included some alarming conclusions.

In addition to sending films, emails, and tweets, fiber-optic cables that go through the ground, along the seafloor, and into our houses have other uses. Anywhere the wire reaches the ground, these signals can also capture ground vibrations as small as a nanometer. Fiber-optic cables have long been used for unanticipated purposes, but only a small number of military and commercial applications have taken use of it.

In a pilot study at the University of Washington, fiber optic sensing is being investigated for seismology, glaciology, and even urban surveillance. The new UW Photonic Sensing Facility is supported in part by a $473,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, a non-profit organization based in Vancouver, Washington. It has three decoder devices, or "interrogators," that use photons traveling through a fiber-optic cable to detect ground motions as small as 1 nanomeeter.

According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Washington State has the second-highest seismic risk in all of America. Although tsunamis are less often than earthquakes, they have occurred in Washington and are likely to do so again. As a result of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 621-mile fault that extends from northern California to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Washington is more susceptible to earthquakes and tsunamis. According to the city of Bellingham Emergency Management, the zone currently produces major earthquakes and is predicted to do so in the future. A recent tweet from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources showed a simulation of how an earthquake may impact Puget Sound, with waves up to 42 feet tall hitting the Seattle Great Wheel and even TMobile Park.

If you're on Washington's southwest coast when the Big One hits, you have a new way to avoid a tsunami. In Tokeland, Washington, the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe dedicated a 50-foot tall evacuation tower on Friday. The new tsunami shelter platform, according to tribal officials and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, should serve as an example and an inspiration for other at-risk coastal towns.

At 6:22 on Thursday morning, a 3.1-magnitude earthquake was detected south of Black Diamond.

According to the U.S. Geological Society and Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, people as far north as Everett and as far southwest as Olympia reported feeling the earthquake, which happened at a depth of around 11 miles.

SEATTLE — More than 4,600 people have died as a result of the earthquake in Nepal, and many more are still missing, including two teenagers from Seattle.

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According to a report released on Thursday by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a tsunami caused by a significant earthquake beneath Puget Sound would reach our coastlines sooner and farther inland than previously thought.

Models predicted that a tsunami from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake would reach portions of Bainbridge Island, Elliott Bay, and Alki Point in three minutes and submerge Seattle's waterfront beneath more than 20 feet of water.