Port Angeles: Shallow quake jolts area

A small, shallow earthquake centered near Port Angeles jolted parts of the North Olympic Peninsula late Thursday night.

University of Washington seismologists gave the “micro earthquake”‘ a preliminary reading of 2.5. The temblor occurred at 10:38 p.m. and was centered about 5 miles southeast of Port Angeles.

Its depth was only about 0.7 mile below the surface, the seismology report said.

One caller to the said she felt the quake for about four seconds.

Personnel in the PDN’s Port Angeles newsroom likened it more to a mild jolt of less than a second.