Adam White, a freshman in the School of International Service, was on the 6th floor of Anderson Hall when he felt vibrations under his feet. He didn’t believe it was an earthquake at first and thought it was a stampede of people on the floor below.
“I actually got kind of annoyed about it,” White said. “Then we realized that this was much more serious.”
White is not the only one that didn’t jump to the earthquake conclusion at first. Kent Hiebel, a junior in the School of Public Affairs, was coming out of a meeting in Mary Graydon Center at the time. Hiebel thought the vibrations felt similar to the sensations bass amps make during concerts in the Tavern.
In the Letts-Anderson quad, CAS sophomore Michael Johnson briefly thought a truck was causing the shaking.
“It was like you were sitting in a vibrating chair, like one of those massage chairs,” Johnson said.
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