1.   If such a quake hit, Memphis would be devastated.

2.   Then a second quake hit, sending ceilings splitting, trees falling, floors breaking open and characters screaming as they were buried under a new wave of rubble.

3.   Then the quake hit and the stage shook, chandeliers rattled and some tiles fell from the ceiling, several people said.

4.   Backhoes and forklifts were used hours after the quake hit, while many rescuers -- in areas where survivors were believed to be buried -- removed debris by hand.

5.   Five French tourists and an Italian woman were pulled out dead within hours after the quake hit.

6.   I was home alone when the quake hit, and one whole wall fell in.

7.   In the town of Shari Basurkh many of the injured had not eaten since the quake hit on Saturday.

8.   Nervous residents who had gathered in evacuation centers were returning home a few hours after the quake hit.

9.   Olesik and her husband were out of town when the quake hit, and they had left the boy with his grandparents.

10.   The family lived in a five-story building just one block from the nearest railroad station before the quake hit.