I got an email from my sister in the middle of the night. It said, “Earthquake 10 miles east of Portsmouth. We were surprised!” She lives in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is on the east coast of the U.S. near Boston. That area hardly ever gets an earthquake, so everyone was surprised. The reporter for the local TV news was in her office yesterday morning when she heard a loud boom and thought a car had hit her building. A woman was making a video when the room started to shake. She looked worried! A man was having breakfast at a coffee shop and thought that a big truck was driving by. Someone who lived near an airport thought that an airplane had crashed. Nobody thought that it was an earthquake. (131 words)

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