Silver Springs and Stagecoach were two of the towns hit hardest by a 5.7-magnitude earthquake Monday night.
The epicenter was 12.5 miles southeast of Silver Springs and 15 miles southwest of Fallon.
“This one was literally just shaking, shaking, shaking,” said Heidi Hall from Stagecoach.
“It was the worst that I can remember since I was a child,” said Avis Moniz, a 43-year resident of Silver Springs.
"It was frightening. I'm not used to earthquakes because I'm from the northeast,” said Michael Lamendola from Spanish Springs.
Several neighbors from the two towns said the earthquake caught them off guard - some even thought it was something else at first.
"I thought it was my kids banging on the floor with their feet, and so I was about to yell at them. And then it got bigger and bigger, and then I yelled, 'Earthquake!'" said Julia Mazzoni from Stagecoach.
"A few things fell off the shelves, but nothing broken,” Moniz said. “[My niece] had an electric pepper grinder. It fell out of the cupboard, and then it took off on its own. It scared us to death."
“At first I thought it was my dog jumping and making the floor rattle because we live in a manufactured home,” Hall said, “but then it continued to shake and rattle, and I jumped up and held [my washboard] against the wall so it wouldn't fall off."
Hall said her friend felt the earthquake all the way in Quincy, California.
In Silver Springs, one mother was home with her daughter when the shaking started.
"We were about to, like, leave, and it was hard to walk. I tried to grab her to go under a table, and it was, like, hard to move and maneuver. We just heard stuff falling. It was really nerve-racking,” Olga said. “Luckily, nothing broke. Just the TV. It's not visibly broken, but it doesn't turn on right now."
Olga lived in Carson City during an earthquake near Indian Hills a few years ago, and in Palm Springs before that.
Of all the earthquakes she's experienced, she said this one takes the cake.
Her next-door neighbor said the quake spooked his dogs.
"I was in the bathroom, and things were just, you know, combing my hair,” Michael Lamendola said. “Things were just falling off the shelves and stuff, and I was hanging on the stuff. And then I looked to the side of me, and my two dogs are there. They were scared as heck. And they've never had an earthquake. They're like two years old.”
