Around 1 a.m. on Feb. 17 an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 surprised residents across Central Washington. Fortunately, the earthquake didn’t cause any damage, and many students weren’t event awakened by the rumbling.

Central sophomore, Katie Estes, elementary education major, said that she was just about to fall asleep when she suddenly felt shaking and noticed the room swaying.

“My leg started shaking, and then I looked out the window and the street lights turned on and off, and some of the nail polish on my desk had moved,” Estes said. “The scariest part is I could hear the wood in the walls cracking, I thought the ceiling was gonna fall on me.”

Estes said she had to go on twitter right after to see if what she just experienced was actually an earthquake. Multiple Central students also took to social media to express their shocking reactions.

“It was only a couple of seconds but I was freaking out, that was my first earthquake,” Estes said. “I texted my mom and my roommates, I couldn’t even sleep after I was so freaked out.”

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