My monthly dose of Earthquake

Published on August 15, 2005 By momijiki In Life Journals

In Tokyo, It feels like we get a noticeable earthquake here about once a month. I'm sure there are tremors going on all the time that I don't notice. Since July, there have been three earthquakes that shook enough to make me start to wonder if I had to think about taking cover. Luckily, they just shake stuff and no damage done. Enough shaking happened today that the trains probably stopped though.

An interesting side effect of the earthquakes is the physiological effect it has one me. It actually makes me dizzy and my head spin even though it's not a big earthquake. Hmmm... will go check the TV for earthquake info... People in the news office sounded kinda panicky in that news caster kinda way.

Ok... there was a big earthquake in sendai... a 6 on the japanese scale. This is comparable to a level X earthquake according to the Mercalli scale used in the US. Sendai is on the northern coast of Honshu. It is a couple of hundred km away.

Comments

momijiki

on Aug 15, 2005

Ok, the epicenter was off-coast and a magnitude 6.8 and most of the areas on land experience a shin-do (japanese scale) 5 effect of earthquake. It turns out the injury count is about 80 people throughout the prefecture so far. Mostly because of roof damage at a sports complex.

foreverserenity

on Aug 16, 2005

Wow! I heard about this on television. I'm glad you're ok. I've noticed that lately about the frequency of earthquakes being reported in Japan. I guess that's a regular thing then uh?

In California, here in the US they experience frequent tremors too.

Here in Florida where I live (central florida) there's a frequency for hurricane. We've had a few tropical storms but nothing that serious yet. Now last year this time, there were already 3-4 hurricanes that did a lot of damage! I'm hoping for a better year where that is concerned. Fingers crossed!

sushiK

on Aug 16, 2005

Well you know they have been waiting for years now for the Big one there.
How many years it it overdue?

Moderateman

on Aug 16, 2005

here in cali, anything under a 6 is just a coffee stirrer.

above a 6 all the way to 6.5 is just a bed bouncer.

momijiki

on Aug 16, 2005

I saw a simulation on TV where an earthquake occured by the same shifting in tectonic plates as in Thailand and India. If they have one like that, it will wipe out everything from the Izu Peninsula to Tokyo Bay and quite a bit inland. If that happens, I'm screwed.

The big one, like the Hanshin earthquake... dunno. I keep hearing it is overdue as well. Someone told me every 50 years, and we missed out the last cycle.... I'll ask around.

Yah. today was coffee stirrer in tokyo but some definate beds bouncing up in Sendai.

I've had a headache all day. I notice I tend to get them on earthquake days. My friend who lived in Kobe at the time of the Hanshin (Kobe area) earthquake said that she had been having severe headaches all week. She is really sensitive to that kinda stuff and even had a nightmare about earthquakes before it happened.

Sadly, I only get the headaches afterwards. They make me really dizzy though.

momijiki

on Aug 16, 2005

We've had a few tropical storms but nothing that serious yet. Now last year this time, there were already 3-4 hurricanes that did a lot of damage! I'm hoping for a better year where that is concerned. Fingers crossed!

I'll hope for you too. I've been through typhoons here but they're nothing like what I saw in Florida on TV. Not pleasant. Last year was record for typhoon here. 15 landed in Japan. Most of the crossed in the Shizuoka area (betweenish TOkyo and Osaka) and they had landslides and flooding almost all summer and fall.

Nature is most certainly a force to be respected, no?

foreverserenity

on Aug 16, 2005

I'll hope for you too.

Thanks.

Nature is most certainly a force to be respected, no?

It most certainly is!

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