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• nytimes.com
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Jessica Chang, 12, was in class working on a math problem in Chino Hills when the shaking began. She said a vase fell on her head but she was not injured.
"When it started, I felt the shaking under my feet," she said. "I thought I was going to die. But my teacher told us to calm down." Her brother, Jayden, 5, piped in that he thought it was a "Tyrannosaurus rex walking."
The aftershocks cracked the walls and floors of homes and buildings in nearby Diamond Bar, said Lt. John Saleeby, the watch commander in the Los Angeles County sheriff's office in that town.
Elizabeth Cespuglio, 17, of Corona, about eight miles from the epicenter, was watching television and working on her computer when the shaking began. She ran to a door frame, as experts advise.
"I always kind of liked quakes when they were tiny," she said by telephone. "But after it lasted longer it kind of freaked me out."'
P.S. Experts DO NOT advise running to a door frame!