Silk and linen are traditional gifts for a twelfth anniversary, though technically the big day was yesterday, February 28. On that day in 2001, the Nisqually Quake hit. It was “just” a 6.8, but still, a good wake-up call, we used to think.

On the tenth anniversary, we cheerily informed you that Seattle was, infrastructure-wise, incredibly vulnerable to a major earthquake still, and that situation hasn’t changed — if a few bridges go down, Seattle is cut off from itself. (Oh, there’s a list of Seattle’s worst bridges? A long list, you say?) That tottering Viaduct still totters, scheduled for demolition in 2016.

Let’s move right on to “Emergency Supplies Renters Need to Have on Hand,” then.

Does it seem like the quake has receded in memory? Our SunBreak Quake Correspondent Arne collects eyewitness accounts at a blog devoted to the Nisqually Quake. They have a unique power to bring it all back, even if you weren’t even there:

My coworker was living in Pioneer Square, and she said as she ran down all the stairs, the giant crack was zigzagging up the bricks as she ran down. That’s why some people were crying in the street down there…sheer relief.