Los Angeles Area Struck by 5.4-Magnitude Earthquake
I was sitting in my office waiting for work, as usual. Sitting by the computer (procrastinating college applications), I felt the ground tremble, kind of the like the ground shaking as a train pulls into a station or the floor of a car when starting the engine. That’s odd, what’s that shaking? The computer CPU? The shaking became more prominent until my partner looked and asked, “Is that?” EARTHQUAKE!
The trembling became more prominent and before we knew it, the walls began to shake, as if the room was being rocked back and forth. The windows rattled and objects on desks moved. THIS IS SOOO COOL!! My partner on the other hand was not as excited as I was about the earthquake and made her way under the desk. The shaking lasted about thirty seconds, with small after tremors that felt like waves below my feet.
After all was settled, we sat in our chairs, ready to go back to browsing Youtube and playing Sudoku when Avery staff members motioned from outside the office to evacuate. I grabbed my cellphone and dialed home. No connection. Again, no connection. Once outside, I tried dialing again. Dialing “Apartment.”
“Hey Mom, guess what?”
“What?”
“An earthquake happened! It was soooo coooool.” The other staff members smiled realizing that I’m not a California native.
Jose
