STATE DAMAGE

Waterways

-Moderate damage to the north slip at the Washington State Ferries' terminal in Seattle and damage to a ferry slip on Vashon Island. Ferries on normal schedule.

- Part of a 300-foot bluff shook loose and knocked a house in Tacoma's Salmon Beach neighborhood off its pilings and onto the beach. Several other nearby homes were evacuated.

- A landslide briefly blocked the Cedar River southeast of Seattle. One house was inundated with mud. A new river channel was widened with earth-moving equipment.

Trains

- Amtrak service between Portland and Vancouver, British Columbia, resumed the next day.

- Freight trains resumed operation on Burlington Northern Santa Fe lines that afternoon after tracks, bridges, tunnels and signals were inspected. Only minor track alignment problems were found in the Nisqually River Valley north of Olympia. A total of 88 trains were delayed, said Burlington Northern spokesman Gus Melonas.

Air travel

- Boeing Field in Seattle was closed for much of the day due to runway damage. The south half of the field's long runway was opened by evening.

- Seattle-Tacoma International Airport reopened to limited traffic after a several-hour closure. All but one window was broken in the control tower and portable towers were brought in.

Buildings

- In Seattle, the six-story, 77-unit Stockbridge Apartments building lost a corner of its roof, forcing its evacuation.

- Bricks and facades tumbled from several buildings in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square district. Window glass and building rubble littered some downtown sidewalks.

- Amazon.com's Seattle headquarters closed for damage repairs. Chunks of masonry fell from the front of the building, a former hospital in Seattle.

- Part of a tower facade at Starbucks' Seattle headquarters fell, damaging several cars below.

- More than 200 high-risk residents at the state's primary mental institution were relocated after their complex at Western State Hospital in Steilacoom was condemned.

Prisons

- A natural gas line explosion at Cedar Creek Corrections Center near Littlerock injured two Corrections Department workers who had been resetting the line's earthquake valve after problems arose with a gas-fired boiler at a residential unit.

- Damage was reported to a dining hall at the Corrections Center in Shelton and to a nonfunctioning water tower at the McNeil Island Penitentiary. Cracks and minor damage also were reported to McNeil's Eden Creek dam.

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