The terrible earthquake happened in the afternoon on May 12, 2008 when I was about to library. Suddenly I felt the floor shaking. At the beginning I didn’t think it an earthquake because I had never experience earthquake before. I just thought it must be something wrong with our dormitory. I knew I was wrong when my roommate shout “Earthquake!” Then all of us hid under the desk waiting for the shaking to stop. During that time I was totally blank and murmuring to pray for the stop of the shaking. Fortunately, the shaking stopped after about 3 minutes and all of us safely went out of the dormitory. When I received my brother's SMS which said at 2:28 a huge earthquake happened in Sichuan, I still found it hard to believe that an earthquake would hit Sichuan. Because according to my geographic knowledge, Sichuan was seldom stricken by such disaster. However, the earthquake was a truth and I felt it so strongly. I felt so lucky for my safety in such a devastating earthquake.......

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Title: My Earthquake Experience
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