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Jishin
Thursday May 8th, 2008 | Posted in City Life
It’s 1.59am over here by my computer’s clock in Tokyo and we just had a pretty big earthquake. Well, it was big by my standards. I’ve felt one at least once a week, but only very slight tremors. Before I noticed the earth moving you could hear rattling coming from the overhead electric cables that festoon the streets. Soon after that you could feel the slow back-and-forth movement. Pretty scary considering the big one may be on it’s way. I waited a bit to see if it was followed by another (a sign of a larger earthquake on it’s way), but it never came, so I’m going to bed.
UPDATE: Here’s the official line on the quake from CNN. Incredible, because it was 6.8 on the scale! I guess I shouldn’t have been so blazé about it after all.
3 Responses to “Jishin”
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May 8th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Careful of yourself x
May 8th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Hi there!
I just bumped in your page looking for informations about the jishin!
Yesterday night I have to admit I was really scared!
It’s my first real earthquake in a about a month of living in Tokyo, and you know..Italy it’s not famous for earthquakes too so..hontou ni kowakatta ne!
But the thing that reeeally get me scared after all was that before the strong one at about 2 o’clock..I kept feeling little tremors all around in the 15/20 minutes before!!
So it’s really true the thing about the little one followed by a bigger one?? Now..I’m really scared!
Anyway..I like your site!
Back studying now..Bye!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Yes, I heard there was a few smaller ones before, but I didn’t notice them. I wonder how many other earthquakes I missed during my time in Tokyo? I hope that fault line is OK, I don’t want The Big One to happen anytime soon. Good luck in your studies Kia.