It's about time...

[unforth]

I think there was just an earthquake. Either that or one of my housemates was having sex enthusiastically enough to shake the entire apartment, which seems unlikely even thought it was my first thought.

And here it was looking like I was gonna get out of Tokyo without feeling one!

Hmm...then again, maybe not, I'd think this website would show it.

What the heck was that, then? It was...very shaky. And much to fast to be sex. Except maybe really, really bad sex.

lol. In the time I was writing this post, that webpage added it. So! My first earthquake! And it was a big one, cause it wasn't that close to here. (there's a map on that page)

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[schenker28.livejournal.com]

There are 2 earthquakes listed yesterday on that website... is neither one of them at the right time? Time zones are confusing, etc. so I can't tell.

[unforth.livejournal.com]

That's not yesterday, it's today. It's currently 11:30 PM on the night of Monday, the 26th - the earthquake took place at 10:51 PM.

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not freaked at all, I thought it was AWESOME. :) My apartment is only on the second floor, and I'm kind of oblivious, so I'm sure they've been happening, I just haven't noticed. ;)

[skygawker.livejournal.com]

I felt a bunch of them the first week I was in Japan in 2004 -- it was creepy! But I haven't felt many this time, knock on wood. (I do not want a concrete wall to fall on me or a gas line to blow up near me, so even if I feel a slight one, I freak out. o_o Though if time passes and nothing falls on me, I do think it is somewhat exciting.)

Those are pretty big quakes, too! I'm wondering why I'm not seeing them on NHK right now. (I looked up the Japanese seismic scale and 5.4 is up there a ways! But I wonder how far out to sea they were, and what it felt like on land in Fukushima and Miyagi.)

[unforth.livejournal.com]

I think in Fukushima it must have been pretty bad, since not only was there the initial, there were all those powerful after tremors. Still, if no one got hurt and no serious damage was done...I dunno.

You're closer to the Sea of Japan side, right? I didn't think they got that many...but I don't actually know what I'm talking about, so I might be wrong. ;)

My understanding is that there are tons all the time, so I guess it's just that I'm not all that sensitive, or something. I've probably shrugged them off as being caused by other stuff when they have happened.

[bakanekotoo.livejournal.com]

Wow, congratulations? I dunno, it sounds like it'd be scary :-P Hmm you must have some pretty HUGE roommates for you to think it was them having sex to shake your ENTIRE apartment :-P

[unforth.livejournal.com]

It might have been scarier if there was more to it. As it was, the room shook, and by the time I realized what was happening it was over (and I was typing this LJ post).

I'll admit, before I left the States, I was a bit scared of an earthquake, but after three months+ here with nothing happening, I was starting to think "and I'm gonna leave without even having noticed one of the damned earthquakes" ...so it was kind of neat. ;)

[ultimabaka.livejournal.com]

6.0 ftw. I sat on my desk this morning, staring at Japan on my spreadsheet, my Reuters news scroll going beepbeepbeep in it's loving little way of saying "yo muthafucka, look at me!" I think more silliness broke loose in my office than in that country, where they probably just blew it off like an American at a gaijin club ;)

*huggles*
-- Gerardo

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, nothing happened at all in Tokyo - it might have been more serious in Fukushima, since it was closer to there. My power didn't even flicker, and there was not a siren to be heard. ;)

[ultimabaka.livejournal.com]

I think it happened offshore, northeast of tokyo. Japanese defense and maritime tsunami warnings flickered for like a second during the running around of me that occurred this morning. Was good ole' fashioned fun ;)

[unforth.livejournal.com]

It was off shore of Fukushima. They show where in the map in the link. :)