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Ternblor wakes, confuses many Arizonans
By Laura Trujillo * a The Arizona Republic
When a jolt shook Frances Becklean awake early Saturday morning, the 87-year-old Sun City resident figured something must have exploded nearby.
This is Arizona, the retired secretary thought to herself It can't be an earthquake.
Across town in Chandler, the shaking startled Mary McCormick from her bed and sent the former California resident scurrying to her
closet.
"I was looking for safer ground, in case it was the big one," she said.
The 7.0-magnitude temblor that rolled through the desolate desert in Southern California just before 3 a.m. Saturday, the most powerful. quake to hit the state since 1992, caused few injuries and little damage.
But 245 miles away in the
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