Ethan's+Story

I was sleeping soundly at my beach house in Salisbury, MA, when I was awoken by a noise... and something else awfully peculiar. Something I'd never experienced before. //**__THIS is MY story.__**//

"Woof! Woof!" "Quiet, Buddy!" I said to my Jack Russel terrier. Suddenly, a lamp fell. "My mom's gonna kill me!" Then a picture fell of the wall. Everything started to shake. "We have to get out of here!" I yelled. I picked up my brother and Buddy and we ran. I met my parents at the door with the rest of our pets. "Let's get out of here!" My dad yelled. We ran to our helicopter and got in. Just then, our house started to sink into the ground. //Liquefaction//, I thought. We flew to our grandparents house in Michigan. They had a Base-isolated house , so we'd be safer there. We watched the news, and found out the  epicenter was only 10 miles from our house! The Richter scale magnitude was 9.3 at our house. That was because the P waves, S waves and Surface waves <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> arrived within the same 5 seconds. I went to the kitchen and as I was <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">pouring some soda, I heard, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Breaking News! The earthquake in Peabody, MA <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">has caused the water to form an <span style="color: #ff0003; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> tsunami <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">! We order everyone in the area to <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">evacuate!" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Well," my dad said,"Looks like we might be looking for a house in the area." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"You might want to enroll them at a school in town, also." Grandma replied. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"But where?" My mom asked. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Well..." Grandma started to speak, when the house started to shake. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Oh, no!" I screamed. "Here we go again!!!" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Relax!" Grandpa said. "This is a base-isolated house." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But, pieces of the house started to fall, I fell, and remembered no more.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I woke up in the hospital with a cast on one of my arms, and bandages around my head. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"What happened?" I asked. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"You'll be fine. Just a few injuries." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I looked around to see who had spoken. It was the doctor. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"I BROKE MY ARM, AND YOU SAY I'LL 'BE FINE'?????" I hollered. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Yes. Yes I did. It's only fractured." he said. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"ONLY FRACTURED? WHAT KIND OF NUT HOUSE IS THIS?" I screamed. I passed out <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">again.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">As I fell asleep, though, I felt a rumbling in the distance.