'' Alene Dawson '' : '' Vanessa Marquez '' : Was a patient at the Northridge Hospital in California . She claims that she caused the 1994 Northridge earthquake to occur while she was laying on her bed in the hospital . Vanessa had previously been in a car accident months ago on the Interstate 10 and had been paralyzed from her waist down . She was not improving . Out of frustration , on the night of the earthquake , she tried with all her might to move her legs , when she finally did , at that same instant the ground shook . " '' I made the whole earth shake with my tiny legs ! '' " She was both excited to finally move her legs and yet at the same time terrified that she could do so much destruction with just the movement of her little legs
1994 Northridge earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
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