[news] Diary of an Earthquake: 10/17/1989

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

"Now, in the aftermath, every noise or movement causes silence and immediate reaction..." - Kirsten Anderberg's Diary, dated October 19, 1989

At 5:04 pm, on October 17, 1989...I began to hear an odd noise. It sounded like a plane was going to crash into the building. Then I thought maybe it was a train heading for the building, but then realized there were no tracks going *into* the library building. Everyone around me appeared to stop moving, as they listened. Then I noticed little puffs of dust coming out from in between the bricks of the library walls. Then, it hit. The floor began to shift dramatically, and I assumed it was an earthquake, and ran for the door...

  


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