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I vividly remember the 2008 earthquake. It was my first. I had moved here the previous month, and my wife and I were experiencing pretty good culture shock. We were fighting and she was saying something like, "It is your fault that we live here." As I screamed back at her, our 12th floor apartment began to sway back and forth. I had never seen walls shake like that before. I about shat my pants and ran down twelve flights of stairs barefoot. After we calmed down, we made our way back to our apartment. That quake did end our fight that day...in fact, I think it ended it for awhile.