LEBANON, Oh. - A 7.0 earthquake shook millions awake early Saturday in the tri-state region and derailed an

Amtrak train.

The quake jolted residents out of their beds and shook buildings as far away as Pittsburgh. Over 90,000 people

lost their power, and a highway bridge was cracked in downtown Cincinnati. This 2:46 A.M. earthquake was more

than the ordinary and caused a little more than incidental damage.

"Did you ever play a pinball machine and see the ball get stuck in there and go bam-bam-bam-bam? It just threw

my body back and forth as I ran down the hallway," Dick Dale said from his home.

Four of the passengers on the Amtrak train suffered minor injuries. "I was sleeping. It felt like the train jumped

off the track...and I fell out of bed," said passenger Colleen Broome, who suffered a separated shoulder.

The quake was centered 32 miles north of Cincinnati in a small town called Lebanon. After the main blow from

the earthquake......

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