By Jim McCausland, Sunset senior garden writer

Carol King was right: sometimes you really do feel the earth move under your feet. Where was it? How big was it? You can turn on the news, or head for a web site that tells the tale. My favorite for the Pacific Northwest is maintained by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, which is based at the University of Washington’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences.

Click on a map like the one shown here and you’ll get a close-up map. Click again and you’ll get magnitude, coordinates, time, and duration of the shaker.

This site can also link you to the Tsunami Warning Center and other earthquake sites around the world. My favorite is the US Geological Survey’s Earthquake Center, which color codes all 4.0-or-larger quakes that have shaken any part of the world in the previous seven days.