Imagine you're eating dinner with your family and the table and chairs start shaking. The suspended dining room light is swaying. You're used to the occasion minor tremor, but this time the tremor rapidly intensifies to hard shaking and lasts for over 3 minutes. That's what happened to me at age 12 when we were living in Chile. An 8.0 magnitude quake struck off the coast 65 miles away. Where we lived it felt like a mid-to-high 6-magnitude...
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