My First Earthquake

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On Tuesday morning, at 4:30am James and I sprung up and out of bed to a terrible rattling of everything in the house. We looked at each other, and James immediately thought it was the motorcycle that had fallen over. We rushed downstairs to our garage and everything seemed to be in order.

We got back into bed, and tried to figure out what had just happened. Nothing was out of place, or had fallen over. Wasn't that suppose to happen when there's an earthquake? Apparently, it just sounds like a freight train blowing past your house. It reminded me of some friends' places in NYC that lived over a train stop.

It was a 4.4 magnitude earthquake that hit 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. We live about 3 miles west of downtown, so I guess we felt the tremors. Nothing was reported damaged, and there were no injuries.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/16/los-angeles-earthquake-44_n_500431.html