No damage from earthquake near Mt. Rainier

A light-to-moderate earthquake was widely felt in Western Washington about 7:45 p.m., today. Police in Pierce, Snohomish and Pierce Counties had no reports of injuries or damage.

The magnitude 4.5 quake was centered at 17 miles north of Packwood, Lewis County, or about 8 miles east of Mt. Rainier, said Tom Yelin, a geophysicist at the University of Washington seismology laboratory

Yelin said the quake's size was relatively uncommon for Western Washington and was about two miles deep.

The Nisqually Earthquake on Feb. 28, 2001 was magnitude 6.8, injured about 410 people and caused more than $2 billion in damage. It was centered near Olympia.