"Then I heard what sounded like a really big truck coming down our street," she wrote in her blog a few days later. "Then I noticed the dishes were shaking ... it wasn't until I started out the kitchen door and saw our tall compound wall swaying back and forth ... that I realized the whole world was falling down. A cloud of dust enveloped us.
"In a few minutes we saw downed power lines, the front of a neighbor's house collapsed. The road was clogged with thousands...
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