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LEBANON, Oh. - A 7.0 earth quaver shook millions awake early Saturday in the tri-state region and derailed anAmtrak train.The quake jolted residents out of their beds and shook buildings as far away as Pittsburgh. Over 90,000 peoplelost their power, and a highway bridge was cracked in downtown Cincinnati. This 246 A.M. earthquake was morethan the ordinary and caused a little more than incidental vilify.Did you ever play a pinball mechanism and see the ball get stuck in there and go bam-bam-bam-bam? It just threwmy body back and forth as I ran down the hallway, Dick Dale say from his home.Four of the passengers on the Amtrak train suffered minor injuries. I was sleeping. It felt like the train jumpedoff the track...and I fell out of bed, said passenger Colleen Broome, who suffered a separated shoulder. The quake was centered 32 miles north of Cincinnati in a small town called Lebanon. After the main blow fromthe earthquake there were after- shocks that turn through the region for hours. A 5.8 and a 5.3 were two of thedozen aftershocks recorded.Authorities in Cincinnati and in Columbus said that there were no serious abuse or injuries reported. Theyreceived a few calls, but none of them were too serious. It shook everything pretty good, but that was about it,said Lt. Rich Paddock of the Warren County Sheriffs Department.The effects of the earthquake were more serious near the epicenter located near Lebanon. John Fabian, aLebanon visitor, did not know what it was. Fabians married woman woke him in the middle of the morning and told him they had to get out of there. The whole placewas shaking like crazy, Fabian said.Although the earthquake was powerful, it did not cause that much damage at all. The Hampton Inn in Mason,Oh., about 5 miles away from the epicenter just suffered a power outage and no sign of any type of damage. The owner of the motel later said that he got lucky no structural damage was done.