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I was in a second floor bedroom in an old creaky wooden house for the "Spring Break Quake" in Salem, Oregon in 1993. The whole house rocked back and forth and I got out of bed to see if there had been an explosion. Its spooky how people expect things of relatively low probability to just be zero. I turned on a radio and the DJ had interrupted the song to explain that an earthquake had occurred. The Willamette valley has lots of brick buildings that aren't really prepared for what's going to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Scotts_Mills_earthquake