I live near Seattle, I've lived here 64+ years, I've experienced a couple of 5+, one 6+, and one that is disputable, the Nisqually quake was between 6.8 to 7.1 depending upon who you asked, and many many tiny quakes (2-4) where you might feel a slight momentary sway but no prolonged movement or damage. Fortunately the Nisqually quake was 35 miles deep so not huge amount of damage here, it did do some damage to the capital building dome, a couple of 5 order quakes I experienced as a child were much worse because they were shallow, and one of them the fault ran right through our property and our backyard was significantly changed by it. That quake, although small on the Richter scale, did significant damage to our home, plaster came off the walls, windows spidered, chimney damaged, and back yard that used to have a linear N/S slope now had a big dip about 3/4ths towards the south end, a bulked over this area shattered. Also damaged our driveway, cement walls on either side cracked, driveway cracked, part of it had to be re-poured.