It was the middle of the night and I could feel my bed rocking back and forth. I tried to sleep through it but I started hearing sirens blaring from the streets below. Not long after the fire alarm in my house started ringing as well. There was a weird wavy distortion on all of the alerts. I sat up and looked out at the night view of the city. The earthquake wasn’t stopping. I thought about my parents who were far away on another continent.