Oh yeah, I was there last weekend for the other quake. Just sitting at the kitchen table at my sister's. I knew immediately what it was. Waited for a few seconds before bolting for the doorway, just to see if it meant business. Of course, by the time I got to a safer place, it was over.
We had a
6.8 here in the Puget Sound area in 2001. There was quite a bit of damage. It was scary because it went on for a REALLY long time (~40 seconds). The really scary part was trying to ascertain whether the rest of my family was OK; roads, telephone lines and cellular service were are kaput immediately afterwards.
