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wanderlust
That was a long one, noisy too...enough to shake books off packed shelves. Double-checks quake kit.
Dango bong
It was a short quick jolt here in Chiyoda-ku, got my heart pumping though...
jiji Xx
whooooole lotta shakin' goin' on.... and no wonder, looking a the map, that was close, my biggest in 26+ years here... and the first time my mind leapt to my grab-and-run bag.....
lesenfant
Made me jump between a doorway then check my underwear... Pretty dang strong one.
Bugle Boy of Company B
grab-and-run bag? Where are you going to run to? Better to duck-and-cover and then figure it out.
Jimizo
A decent rattle in central Tokyo.
I can remember at least one a lot bigger than that. About 8 years ago.
Do the hustle
I was on the train. Now I know why there was a small delay. Tokyo strikes it lucky again.
sensei258
That was a strange one here in hachioji. A quick jiggle followed by gentle back and forth then another quick jiggle followed by the back and forth.
KariHaruka
Checked my daughters to make sure that they were okay, and then checked around the house. Aside from a few broken cups, there wasn't damage.
I've noticed the past couple of weeks though that there's been a few moderately powerful quakes around the Kanto region.. Ibaraki, Nagano and now off of Chiba.
cleo
Totally missed it... only a 2 here anyway, not really noticeable if you're moving about.
Sato Masato
The teachers in Kanagawa prefecture are supposed to say "Shake out" when the evacuation drill begins at school. I was wondering, today, how many teachers used the English expression in their classrooms. I remember saying loudly by mistake "Shape up!"
savethegaijin
Was on the way out the door with the kid to her bus stop and it felt like 2 completely different earthquakes, like a jumpy one followed by a rolling one. I’m out here in Hachioji and they said it was only a 2 but it felt a lot stronger than that tbh
Bshabu
I must have slept through it here in Nerima.
Jimizo
That’s a great expression to shout at kids in many situations including earthquake drills.
Do the hustle
Yes, it’s a very similar scenario to the weeks prior to the 2011 mega quake. Sooner or later luck runs out.
1738Kwaaa!!
I work at a School, and the School principal is the only one who completely missed the shake because he was busy doing something on his smartphone. I wonder what it was :) :)?
KariHaruka
@zichi
How do you have your app set up? I have Yurekuru set up to only give me alerts if the earthquake is more than a Lower 5 on the Shindo Scale.
nandakandamanda
Ah, so there are still people living out there in the east of Japan. Stay safe peeps.
Anonymous
More effective than an alarm clock for habitually oversleeping university students.
Patricia Yarrow
Just a sharp, quick, up-and-down jolt in Nakano.
wanderlust
And another one, 19:22; this time centered close to Ito on Izu Shimoda, Mag 4.1 .
Shuya Aki
And I went straight back to sleep. That was a pretty tame one imo.
jiji Xx
@JIMIZO
MY biggest.... to spell it out, the biggest I've experienced.... 8 years ago I lived in Hokkaido.
jiji Xx
@Bugle Boy
well, I live 100 metres from the Pacific with nothing between but beach, so duck-and-cover wouldn't help much if a tsunami rolled in.....