There was a nasty earthquake about two minutes ago. The strongest I've felt in years. Luckily it was short. Hopefully there won't be any more.
My bowels are sufficiently loosened now.
It was a 4.8 on the Japanese scale and the epicenter was Tokyo Bay.
14 responses so far ↓
1 mike
// Aug 31, 2006 at 11:26 pm
yikes, glad to hear that you and your family are okay.
2 Bill Chapman
// Sep 1, 2006 at 1:04 am
You were filiming it with your new camera, weren't you? Hurry and upload it!
3 Kyle Eppard
// Sep 1, 2006 at 1:08 am
That's crazy. I've never been in one.
4 Toritaiyo
// Sep 1, 2006 at 1:22 am
Yeah. there was a pretty big one during the summer of 2005 too. But I think it was only a 4. I was at the computer lab at Jouchi University (near the emperial palace) and we were all freaking out!
5 Kyle Eppard
// Sep 1, 2006 at 2:44 am
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_35.php
The center one, correct?
6 みつだ
// Sep 1, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Glad to know that you are ok.
7 Anonymous
// Sep 1, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Oh man. I really hope that that earthquake is not a fortelling…I'm glad that you and your family are ok.
8 sakuradamon
// Sep 1, 2006 at 1:45 pm
I felt a earthquake in tokyo and they felt different from the ones in california. the eathquake in tokyo felt like a roller and here in california they feel like shakers. still all earthquakes suck.
9 Rich Pav
// Sep 1, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Yep! We were quite close to the epicenter. It was very short as far as tremors go. Had it lasted a little longer we probably would have some stuff in the office knocked over.
10 Rich Pav
// Sep 1, 2006 at 1:53 pm
One time I was in a seminar on one of the higher floors of a skyscraper with a lot of people from overseas in attendance when a mild tremor hit. The locals took it in stride, the visitors freaked.
11 Rich Pav
// Sep 1, 2006 at 1:55 pm
They do suck, but if we go a while without at least a small one, I get a little worried. I'd rather the pressure be released a little at a time instead of all at once.
12 Rich Pav
// Sep 1, 2006 at 2:02 pm
I'm hoping the same thing too, actually. I noticed I'm not the only one in the office who's a little jumpy today when someone shakes a table. It's kinda like if right after you watched a violent movie in a theater, if someone's car in the parking lot backfired you'd probably duck.
13 Anonymous
// Sep 1, 2006 at 2:23 pm
You said it man. Better to let it fizzle out over time, as aposed to exploding all at once. But I'm sure it's made people jumpy nontheless.
14 Ian
// Sep 19, 2006 at 3:09 am
Yeah i just visited japan for the first time and me and my class mates were walking around shinjuku when it kinda hit. we didnt feel it we just had somethings fall inside of shinjuku and all the Japanese people looked amazied all around the South exit of shinjuku where we were. we later were told by our professor who was off with his wife for the night doing god knows what that an earthquake hit at about the time we heard things fall. was the first time i was in an earth quake