Keely's+Story

It had been storming and raining for days, and i had fallen asleep to the sound of rain on the window. What I woke up to was the sound of glass shattering on the floor and the feeling of the foundation of my house shaking under my bare feet. It was an earthquake.I quickly threw on shoes and ran out of my room running into my sister. We heard our mother hollering to us and we hurried to find her. Once we did we all ducked under the dinning room table and held on to our dogs who were terrified. Then the ground under the house seemed to roll, and I knew from science class it was the surface waves hitting and that they would cause the most damage; I heard something hit the outside of the house hard, probably a tree. It took another 30 seconds or so for the shaking to subsided, and we crawled out from under the table still clinging to each other. My heart was still thudding in my chest when my mom tried to call my Step dad who had gone out to get milk but the phone was dead; the phone lines must have come down during the earthquake. She was worried about him, but she was happy that we were all OK. I told my mom that we must have been near the epicenter for us to get hit that hard. We still hadn't herd from my step dad when the house started to shake. We huddled under the table once more. This must have been an aftershock shaking the ground again. It was less intense but still frightening, and it made me worry about where my step dad was. After the shaking stopped we emerged from under the the table.At least it wasn't a tsunami, that would have been devastating. My mom tried to cleanup some of the shattered glass and plates from the floor, and i turned on the TV to a local news channel. "We have recently discoverred that there is a blind fault beneath a nearby town. The siesmograms show that there was much seismic activity and on the moment magnitude scale it was a 4.4.", the news caster said. "At that moment my Step father walked in the door and we all raced to give him a great big hug. I will always remember that day, the day that so much stress built up the ground shook!