“Minutes before it happened, I was under the Cypress structure that collapsed during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in California (which was a magnitude 6.9). I didn’t find out until later about the collapse, and felt like I had been punched in the stomach. I’d never felt so close to death before.”

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Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/cheating-death-experiences