Shake, Rattle, and Sue

摘要

LAST NOVEMBER, DON AMON was about to sit down to a dinner of his wife's famous chicken and noodles when he heard a loud bang. "It was like an explosion," says Amon, the chair of the board of commissioners for the town of Cushing, Oklahoma. "It was like we got lifted. And then the shaking started, the violent shaking." Cushing, population roughly 7,800, had just been hit by a magnitude-5.0 earthquake-one of the largest ever recorded in the state.