"I was laying on my bed. It just kept rattling. I didn't know what it was."

"It sounded like somebody was coming through my front door."

An earthquake rattled residents along the Wasatch front today. The 3.5 magnitude quake was centered four miles west of Park City. We begin our team coverage with News Specialist Keith McCord.

With this being a rather small earthquake, there was very little damage reported. But there was some. An east-side home got a good-sized crack that runs horizontally. There was also damage on the inside.

Nick Poulos: "I felt a major shudder. I was in the back room doing something, and the wall started fluttering very heavy. And I heard a murmur."

Nick Poulos was at his grandmother's home when the quake hit about 9:30. At first, he wasn't really sure if it was an actual earthquake. But, his grandmother, sitting at the kitchen table, had no doubts when she felt the jolt.

Vickie Loukas: "And it swayed me back and forth on the chair with an awful sound. It felt like a Mack truck had gone through my house."

On the inside of the house, on the same wall as the cracked brick, the paint and drywall is also damaged. Although it was a small quake, people could feel it over a wide area. It interrupted a convention at Snowbird.

"I looked around and kind of checking to see if everyone felt what I felt. And i was thinking that I don't know that I want to be up the canyon during an earthquake."

Just over the hill in Park City, nearer to the epicenter, some people reported violent shaking for a few seconds. Many thought something had exploded.

"And I heard this real big shake underneath my feet, and first thing I thought was some dynamite went off. And I thought, earthquake. But I'm thinking, that only goes on in California."

We received a lot of phone calls from residents in Sandy, who described the quake in a variety of ways.

"It just shook the house. It was very brief. I didn't really think it was an earthquake because it was so quick." "How long did it last?" "A second or two." "So if you weren't paying attention, you would have missed it?" "Yeah."

People also felt the quake up in the Ogden area this morning. It didn't take seismologists long to pinpoint where the quake was centered. Science Specialist Ed Yeates has more on that.

This was one of those small quakes close enough to populated areas to at least let people know the ground was moving. People felt it on the upper floors of downtown buildings. What surprised seismologists at the University of Utah is that so many people claimed they felt strong ground motion some distance from the quake. Dr. Walter Arabasz says while the quake was minor, there probably was some amplification of shock waves in our loose lake bottom soils.

Dr. Walter Arabasz, University of Utah Seismograph Stations: "Very close to the epicenter, the common perception would be of a very sharp jolt for an earthquake of this size. A bit farther away, a few tens of miles, the duration of the perceived shaking might be a little bit longer."