Earthquake

I was sitting on my mom's bed watching TV with my niece at about 3:45 when the bed and the TV started shaking. I didn't know what was going on at first, then it started to get worse until the whole apartment was shaking and I could hear things clanging against the walls. My niece was freaking out. It went for forty seconds then stopped. Everything got quite then there were after shocks. It was pretty scary, because I have never felt an earthquake that big before. After it was done my dad turned on the TV again and changed it to the news and we watched them talk about the earthquake for a little while. It was crazy, and fun at the same time. That was my niece's first time experiencing a big earthquake.