地震

Tokyo Magnitude 6.9? The anime really brought home the consequences of an earthquake.

Glad that you're alright! San Francisco is also due for a big earthquake...

Ouch! Persona is coming true! Shadows shall enter Tokyo! Mwahahaha!

6.9 is a serious earthquake @_@ Had a coupole of them a few months back, only thing that fell was my Haruhi Max Factory 1/8 ^^;

Is the X where the earthquake originated from? wouldn't that cause a huge tsunami? run for high ground!

My first earthquake experience, I shit my pants.

wow ^w^ so I wan't imagining it =w= .. I felt the floor moving while watching anime

I thought about the anime at first too.

Good to hear that you are safe.

Im in tokyo but didn't feel a thing

what time did it happen???
19:56? my boyfriend said that the ground shaked a bit
but I didn't notice a thing

I'm glad to know your wife, the girls and you are all ok.

glad things are fine.
didn't feel anything here in osaka. i still don't know how earthquake feels.
that reminds me of tokyo magnitude 8.0 anime =x

but after 1 there are always more right?

It didn't feel that bad, just a bit of a shake. I've felt a worse one in england, although this one lasted for quite a while.

Nothing happened here in Nagoya either.
But, about 2 weeks ago there's this small quake that shook my office building, that was the first earthquake I ever felt in my life.
Quite shocking though, felt like I was a figure inside a doll house on top of a table, then someone slammed their hand to the table ^_^

Im glad we don't get very big earthquakes here. Last one was a few months ago and seemed scary cos everything shook - but it was only a 2!

Glad you are all ok!

Just had some discussions on this matter over Twitter just now... Glad everyone's in DC who lives there OK...

It was strong here... But I got used for this things...

I still have nightmares about the July 1990 earthquake here. Was a wee slip of a geeky girl then.

Glad you and yours are safe.

Just got this from Twitter Muzachan , Betamax Dc and Jlist is also all okay ^_^ .

Though , having an earthquake around your neighbourhood is quite scary indeed .

Woah , The internet is sure fast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Japan

Its good to hear your daughters are fine .

Did Danny hide under the table or something , when The Earthquake happened ???

felt the tremors here in Asakusabashi, Tokyo. was minor but lasted quite a few seconds

Glad your fine from that Earthquake, In the part of the world I live in natural disasters rarely occur, but we do get the bush fires.

1 step closer to Tokyo magnitude 8.0
Very scary thought of an earthquake, but nothing happens in Australia, the most boring country geographically speaking. Middle of a tectonic plate, no earthquakes, no volcanoes the only disasters we get are floods and droughts, and even then I don't get that in Sydney.
Good thing there were only minor damages.

Glad you all okay there ^_^

I used to be good in this earthquake theory back few years in secondary school..

Good to hear that are all okay ,
I know the earthquake feeling too, it was in 2000 or 2002 I don't know exactly but It's not
important, I was in Tokyo/Yurakucho at the Kotsu Kaikan in the round building on the Top of the building I visit there a phonecard convention (I collect anime phonecards too) and it came in the morning, this feeling was so unreal in this moment, the most of the japanese people are silent a few are nervous but after 45 seconds was it gone...well when I remember this, my feeling says we are all so little humans in a sometimes not friendly world..

After picking up 'Tokyo Magnitiude 8.0', i thought this article was about the anime ^^

Man, nothing ever happens here - Aussie natural disasters are boring
The most Australia will ever get is in a hurricane. But that's usually at the more tropical regions of Australia - Never any around Sydney

I grew up in an earthquake zone, and I know it's all fun and games until the ground starts shaking. ^^; I'm glad none of you are injured. I hope your figures didn't all fall off their displays. >.<; I hated when all my cupboards would shake open and empty themselves.

This reminds me of when I used to live in the Phillipines. Eartquakes were a fairly regular occurence. Though, they were all fairly minor, at least where I lived. The worst I remember seeing is cracked and buckled sidewalks and such.

Glad you're safe! Have never really experienced any natural disaster before I guess...

It lasted for a little longer than usual over here in Tatebayashi... kind of strange to feel two waves up here. Scary... the biggest quake since I came to Japan.

Whoa big earthquake ur all okay also reminded of the anime.

Heard the news, went online FTL. Glad to hear everyone in JP is fine ^^; Also, the video is giving me the creeps man. Especially when the warning came with a 01sec countdown..

Good to know you and your daughters are fine! ^^ It's back to studying for me. Baibai.

I heard that the older wooden houses are greatly affected by earthquakes because those roof tiles are pretty heavy.
I've never experienced an earthquake before, Australia sits right in the middle of the tectonic plate. So no volcanoes and no earthquakes here.

Anyway glad that the quake wasn't too major and everyone here is fine.
BTW isn't this the 2nd earthquake that has happened in the past few weeks?
After watching "Tokyo Magnitude 8.0", it makes me think... it's just a matter of time before an event like that will happen.

Im so glad it was not a really big one and everyones ok
This is the first I have heard of it!!! You have even beaten the news on this one for me!
I have a freind in tokyo and Im going to call her and ask and check on her now.

wow

Glad to know everything's alright ... and yes after watching TM 8.0 you start to wonder ...

I was doing my homework at the time when the earthquake it. At first I was a little startled, but then it went on for a while, and I became really bored, and just went back to doing homework while the earthquake was still happening. It probably lasted for 20 seconds or so. Wasn't very big, but was very noticeable.

glad that you're alright danny

Wow that was quite a serious earthquake. The thing is we had one to, though it was a fart in comparison ( arround 2-2.3 on Richter scale). The most noticeable thing was the deep, low rumble. I thought it was a heavy plane at first.

wow what a bad year to have a big earthquake like that hit when Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 has been playing and me watching the latest sub ep of it at the same time it hit
glad to hear that you and your family are alright and here is to hoping that one like a Magnitude 8 never hits for a very, very long time actual never

Glad you and the family are safe :)

Glad that you & ur family is alright Danny.

Lucky Europe. Damn in the middle of everything and so shielded from most of the bad stuff here!!

theres a basic earthquake safety program that you can do while in japan i think, i did one as part of my stay, although it was rather late on in my stay lol

glad to hear u n family r ok.

felt tremors a couple of years ago when indonesia got hit by one. our office had to walk down from 32nd floor! felt little nauseous when the tremor hit, things started swaying.

That was huge huh ;)

Just a small eq in Nagoya, but glad to hear that Tokyo is alright.

Yokatta that you and your family are OK.
The Tokyo simulation video was really touching I found, not like the cheesy, awful health and safety type videos we get here!

Hmmm, and I still want to go to Japan ^_^ Glad everyone is safe Danny. Now, if a earthquake happened I would be more afraid of the gas lines bursting than anything else. You just need a nice sturdy table to hide underneath from falling debris. As far as the builidngs go, aren't buildings in Japan such as those modern office buildings designed so that they rock back and forth in place to avoid from collapsing? Of course, a wooden house would probably rock back and forth because of the lighter frame.

I woke up maybe 2 minutes before the earthquake hit. I thought it was just some jerks running up the stairs at my hostel, but then it kept going.

When I realized it was actually an earthquake I grabbed all my precious Akihabara loot and stood under a door frame with it.

I feel it too but not that strong. Just a little bit of shake for about 5 seconds. Luckily I didn't live around Tokyo or else I might get freaked out. ^^;;

that was the 1st earthquake i've ever felt btw, me and the gang (Rin and his friends and mine) were in K-books(Akihabara) when we felt the earthquake, at first we through it was the shops closing the iron gates but then it started rumbling and showcase figurine were falling off, it was weird but funny enough, we didnt really felt that much of it even if its 6.9 :P

6.9 that is quite high but everyone seems to be okay. That's good to hear.

I have never felt an earthquake. Wonder what it feels like. My country is virtually earthquake-less. Only a small region in the west part of country has minor earthquakes from time to time. It's caused by remnants of volcanoes which used to be there in faraway past.

Glad that you and your family are ok, Danny. That was pretty scary >.<

Eeep. I've only felt 2 earthquakes in my life, one very small one, and one a bit stronger, woke us up in the night, shook the house a bit. Tis one of the few good things bout the UK, its such a stable/boring country and almost nothing ever happens, hardly any floods, earthquakes almost never, and no volcanic eruptions lol.

Wow...I flew out of Japan on the 8th. Guess I dodged this one.

good to know all digits are accounted for.

Somehow... I totally didn't feel this earthquake...

I am shocked at myself.

Scary stuff man.

Dont have earthquakes in Florida but they sound scary.

Shindo 4 in Tokyo? That was so scary. (and close call, too)
Good thing you're alright!

The funny thing is, when I was in Akihabara this evening, I didn't feel it...LOL...
My friends felt it but I didn't...somehow...

6.9 is pretty strong.
Don't worry as long as everything is fine. Here in
Southern California we're been experiencing our own
jolts lately that have been centered in the city of
Lennox in Los Angeles County. I think the first was
5.4 andf the second i can't recall but they were pretty
scary for those in L.A. who know we are way overdue for
a big one.

I've never experienced a quake before. Guess that's one of the good things of living here....must be very scary 0~0

Glad that you are fine Danny. Hope that everyone in Japan is ok too. >.<

This one was frightening for my gilfriend, for my part I find hard time being connected to the sense of danger, I should but I might not have been enough educated about the danger of earthquake.
But I just discovered how big and close it was, quite a surprise.

Wow I just missed an Earthquake experience. I just left Osaka just 30 hours ago.

I wondering if the site was still available. Was it? Anyway.

Great, that you are okay Danny.

I never quite realized how scary an earthquake could be until recently, after I came to HK for the summer. In an open, flat area like the suburbs of Toronto, an earthquake doesn't have nearly the same impact as an area where people live packed like sardines thirty floors above the ground.

Glad you're ok Danny~

If the epicenter's at the bottom of the sea weren't there any tsunamis?

Just moved to Tokyo last Monday... my wife felt a tiny little earthquake late last night, but was there a big one tonight?! We were at the Oedo Onsen Monogatari at the time and didn't feel a thing over there!

Wow 6.9 should be quite damn the scary! Thank GOD you are safessss... anyways we had a tsunami incident in malaysia not too long ago too. Unfortunately Indonesia was hit more severely compared to Malaysia. Sad times

Well, there was some earthquake here in Hong Kong but you won't really feel it if you don't pay attention to it. You just gonna be surprised that an earthquake has accord while watching the news.

フジの仕込みとか既出ネタを言ってみる。
地震にふつーになれちゃってる日本人としては、この程度だと｢おー揺れてる｣程度の反応しかないなぁ。マグニチュードは大きめだけど、震源が深いから震度は低いとか、どーでもいい分析しちゃう余裕が有る位。

Glad to hear all comrades living in Tokyo are safe.

Glad that everything is ok with u DannY!

Just as I finished watching these videos the house started shaking >.>
I'm in Lincolnshire England, and I'm not actually sure what just happened.. I know there weren't any monster vehicles driving by at the time, but I doubt that such convenient timing would happen..

Still.. Wow..

Good to hear that everything is okay.

I felt a tremor before back in Singapore due to earthquakes in neighborhood country, pretty scary as we live on the 10 floor? ^^;;; It was more gentle swaying but I cannot imagine if it got any worse since many of the apartments in Singapore are made of concrete and are built quite close to each other ^^;;; think dominos effect ^^;;; In Canada - Richmond more high rises are being built, which is a bit disturbing as we're supposedly also due for a big one for a while now too ^^; apparently if there's an earthquake we'll all sink ^^;

My country rarely got earthquakes, so I may not know how it is like. I'm glad all of you who live there are safe and sound, but for those who are at loss, like losing valuables or even a damaged home, get your spirits and hopes up!! There are still tomorrow to live on. I wish you all good luck.

God bless everyone!!

how ironic....it almost would have been like the Anime "Tokyo Magnitude 8.0" as a lot of people commented. I guess the creators of that anime are really crapping in their pants now for coming up with an idea like that...

But on a positive note it does paint a preety realistic scenario of such a disaster and simulate what the emergency response plan would be for it. I guess it would also test the goodwill of us human beings if such a thing were to happen. would we react like "every man for himself" or help each other to overcome this disaster??

Glad to see everyone is OK, but with the earthquake occurring in the seas, what about tsunamis? Also, as the Richter scale increases, how does the actual power of the earthquake increase? Is it a linear scale, or something exponential (e.g. a 7.0 is much more powerful than a 6.0 in power ratio compared to a 6.0 to a 5.0)?

Glad to hear you and your wife and your daughters are all safe. I've never been in a major quake but I'm sure they'd be pretty scary. I experienced a small one when living in California but it was more exciting than scary at that time.

i guess times like this we singaporeans should consider ourselves fortunate to be in a disaster-free area, unlike the japanese... and on national day no less! we really are blessed to be non-earthquake prone.

o: Nice to hear you and your family is fine. We're due for a big one here in Vancouver.

That's good that you are alright. I don't know how I will fare in an earthquake emergency.

Yikes. I've never experienced an earthquake, as I don't live in an area that is prone to them. It's hard to even imagine what it would feel like.

I'm glad that everyone here is O.K at least. I think I would s**t my trousers if I were ever caught up in an earthquake.

Man, that really sucks. All we have is a giant storm here at the moment.

すごい大きく長く揺れてましたね−。マジ怖かった。

good to hear you're okay. . We're waiting for our own big one soon. It's due..

Looks like all are OK, eartquakes are scary, I live near from a volcano and some geological faults.

I just woke up a short while ago and started seeing all of the news on Twitter. Since it's 2 A.M. in Japan right now, I can't call anyone to check on them. I'm glad that I can read about it here so that I know everyone is safe and there were no major damages.

The only earthquake I've ever felt was 2 years ago in Sendai. I think it was only a 2 on the Japan scale, and it only lasted a few seconds; it happened in the middle of the night. I was surprised that the motion is kind of circular-- like the motion of your hand when swirling liquid around inside of a glass. Since it was my first time, I was really shocked, but my wife didn't even wake up. She is used to it.

昨日の地震はこわかった？　ダーニたちはだいじょうぶだ、よかった！

It's a great reliefs to know that there's no casualty this time. I wonder what would had caused the quake?

昨日の地震は確かに怖かったです・・

揺れがとても長くて、正直どうなるかと＾＾；

ダニーさんのところのフィギュア達は無事でしたかね？？

ところで、昨日行きましたよ。TOKYO FIGURE SHOW。

原宿のど真ん中であれほどのフィギュアにお目にかかれるとは思いませんでした( ;ﾟДﾟ)

次回にも期待してます！！（もしあればですけど・・

At least you are alright...that's all that matters...

WoW. It really looks bad on the video. But I guess by now japan's building are designed to handle a big earthquake or not? If not the destruction will be hugeeeee

Thinking about it, the Tokyo metro system should stop stuffing people in trains the way they do. It makes for a disaster in an earthquake situation.

I've always wondered what an Earthquake feels like. It's one of those curiosities that you just have.
Is it honestly that frightening?

i have not felt an earthquake either. maybe i should start watching tokyo magnitude 8.0...

Glad everyone's safe.

Ottawa is in an isostatic rebound zone, it's "rebounding" from when the area was compressed by mile thick ice during the last ice age. The worst we've gotten was a 3 on the Richter scale centered about 20 klicks south of here. Although we've had several quakes reported over the years, I've only noticed one in all the time I've lived here, and that was 25 years ago.

tokyo magnitude 8 totally deja vu'ed this? oTL

:s Glad to hear everyone is safe in your family.

Ah...first thing I thought of was Tokyo Magnitude 8.0...then I started remembering the bitching and whining in that show...

Oh, I learned something interesting today. Japan records earthquake strength differently than the US. Thanks for that info Danny!

Though seeing as this one was recorded as a 6.9 and apparently the scale tops out a 7.. I wonder what scale the anime 'Tokyo Magnitude 8.0' is using.

Hmmm... Didn't know Japan had their own earthquake scale. They have to have their own version of everything, don't they? ^^;

Glad to hear your family's alright, DC. Only experienced a very tiny one here in Scotland that lasted a few seconds in the middle of the night. Everyone thought they were dreaming but it was confirmed in the news the next day.

I've experienced a couple of earthquakes over here but they were very short and probably not that strong. Glad to know everyone is okay ^^

Supposedly there'll be a 8.0 earthquake in teh next 2 years in Japan. My advice: Find a way to secure your figures,gadgets,computers. LOL! anyways be careful.

good to know you & family is safe Danny. i have experienced some quakes too. last time i was sitting on the couch and it felt like some invisible hand was rocking it. i got angry and got down and then realized it was a quake when i saw some water in a glass shaking violently.

could smell cement powder that came out of walls due to cracks, and all this lasted for just less than half a minute.

Glad everyone is ok Danny, one question if you don't mind how could you type in your iphone with the earthquake?

Wow, that is so scary. It's amazing that some of the scariest things in life are natural.

Glad your okay. One of the things about being underway every summer is we miss the earthquakes. Have yet to experience a Japanese earthquake. Not that I'm complaining. I experienced quite a few violent ones in southern California.

Wow sounds really scary around here we rarely have any earthquakes ^^ but the one that did happen few years ago luckily wasn't that strong and only manged to wake me up.

Never been in an earthquake before. Sounds dangerous. I'm glad you're alright, Danny.

Most people living on and around the ring of fire are living on borrowed time, anyway, but the Tokyo CMA stands to lose many more people due to its concentration of population. I'm glad you live uptown, so there'll be less falling on you when the biggie does come - and it will - but ultimately, are the risks worth the rewards when there's so much at stake? A person's perseverance(?) might carry him/her through hard times, but maybe it's also the thing that brought you into harm's way in the first place.

How frightening!
I'm not from an area that experiences many quakes, thankfully.

I've got the news by television more than one hour ago. In Italy is still Sunday evening.
I'm happy there were no victims, last April instead, here in Italy, a strong earthquake seriously damaged the city of L'Aquila and made hundreds of victims.
Now Danny forgive my silly question, but is the Odaiba Gundam still on his feet?
I'm a little worried about him! :)

Glad to hear you're okay Danny...California is due for an earthquake as well and the one in 1992 was the last major earthquake that hit...don't remember much about it except a few things breaking and the power going out...

Like everyone from SoCal says, we are also over-due for a big one.

Glad everything's ok!

That second video gave me the chills! I've never experienced a quake so it's kind of a scary thought to me. Especially one that size!

Earthquakes scare the beans outta me.

It is soo relieving to hear that you and your family are okay.

It's good to hear you and your waifu and the daughters are okay!
It must have been scary.

Always glad no one got hurt. That Kobe one sure looks scary.

Denmark never really has any earthquakes so I've never actually tried it.
There were once we got hit where I live, but it was in the night and not really a big thing so I didn't wake up. All the others in the house did though.

But I'm going to Taipei in 10 days and will be staying there for 11 months so I guess I'll get to try that out too.

Man, glad to hear everyone in the "family" is safe.

We don´t have earthquakes here in Sweden and I´m happy for that. Hope the city wasn´t to much damaged.

Scary stuff. Never been in an Earthquake yet. Every time one has happened where I lived I was off on a trip.

Glad your alright Danny!

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is a great anime.

the x mark is the epicenter right? so a tsunami occurred X_x

thank God everyone of you are safe...

Those videos were pretty confronting, danny. I hope that nothing of the like happens anytime soon.

Scary (>_<)

(@~@) I'm relived to hear everyone is safe.

>_< earthquake again !!

I was in the Hong Kong Tea House in Roppongi Hills when it struck! I had no idea what was going on until my wife calmly said it was an earthquake! Was a little scary!

The Monseter-sized Pacific Plate is always the weakest of all. And by 2012-12-21 at 20h11 JST, it might get ripped off the planet and send it out hurtled to space

Hi danny, relatively new reader to your blog (for abt a month). Been going on it since its just composed of pure win.

Thank god I am not in Tokyo atm, was here from the 31st of july all the way to the 5th of August. Although flight back home was quite eventful, hitting a typhoon on the way back. Wanted to drop by at Harajuku for TFS but realised that by the time i knew the location on 4th august, it was 7 pm.....

Oh well, next time danny! Looking foward to meeting you.

Well at least everbody's okay. Just happy that wasn't a major earthquake. Makes me think whether Pokemon really do exist, y'know with the moves Earthquake andf Fissure and all :P

Maybe im jus weird but i always wanted to experience what an earthquake feels like in person...

Danny... I think God is pissed that you get more SAFs than He does. XP

I mean, think about it. You have more SAFs coming in than St. Peter has people. And that might have made him so jealous that this happened. :O

Whew... At least your safe. Now lets hope your wife does not wake up and experience "The Vanishment of Danny Choo". XP

Wow, I had just started watching Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 last night and thinking how horrible events like this are. I like to think that major disasters at least bring people together in terms of other countries coming to help in the rescue efforts.

From SF Bay Area here, we're both on the edges of the tectonic plates so always at risk of earthquakes. Good thing this one was in the ocean and not any stronger. =/

oh wow, that musta been very scary ._.

Yeah it was really shaky yesterday

Everybody, in the station I was, stopped moving and wait to know if they have to run for their life.

Went through several earthquakes back home...horrible memories. Lost my best friend of 20yrs, 5 friends and our home in 2003 earthquake in Algeria :( Hope there won't be any earthquake when i come visit Tokyo this October :/

Its good to hear you are all o.k.

It seems that Japan and California, both locations I want to move to, are notorious for earthquakes.

I guess its a good thing that I am a mayhem junkie and want to experience a quake.

I hope that's not bad karma. :)

Watch Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, you can see how much danmage it earthquake can be. No Earthquake, or any nature danger in Bangkok Thailand. I prefer concrete than wood, my house has 20 cm. thick concrete wall and no matter it is wood or concrete it going to hurt if it hitted on you head.

good to hear that everyone is okay.

Wow that second video shock my fking mind i wonder wad would happen if a 8.0 really hit Tokyo, i will pee my pants off zz lol good luck danny!!

Yowza! Good thing it was only 4 on land from the looks of it. I think Vancouver is due for something too... I was asleep when I experienced my first earthquake. My brother and I used to sleep in the same room, so when it was shaking I thought it was him shaking my bed ^^;

Yeah I'm also watching Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 and is coincidence that this earthquake happened as I'm following this anime. I live in San Francisco so were due within 30-50 years for another major one.

Glad you and wife and daughters are fine. The one earthquake I felt in Vancouver was in 2001. It originated somewhere near Seattle and is felt right across to Vancouver. At the time I was in an office building and for about half a minute, it felt the whole building was swaying back and forth. It was a weird sensation. The building I was in was not exactly new and I am not sure how well it was earthquake-proved. Luckily no one was hurt in Vancouver as far as I know.

was at an earthquake imitation house the other day and it was quite scary indeed o_o

Wow! An earthquake of that magnitude? If that happened here... O_o

Glad to see that you and your wife are ok.

This reminds me of the anime "Tokyo Magnitude 8.0".Speaking of which, Philippines too is overdue for a big earthquake. I think we've been overdue for a hundred years already. Buildings here aren't as strong as the ones in Japan so an earthquake would be catastrophic.

Well, I guess this is what one pays for living in the Pacific Ring of Fire LOL XD

glad danny and his wife's safe, and his daughters to xD

And his comrades too >.<;;

singapore's small, we dun get earthquakes, but our neighboring countries do, and if that generates a tsunami or whatever towards us we'd be atlantica, and our merlions will swim freely again.

Either way we're so small any natural disasters would totally sink us down >.< Would be scary to imagine an earthquake here

Earthquake... Typhoon... All days before my holiday to visit Japan D:
I hope nothing bad happens once I arrive.

Glad you're OK. I hope everyone in Japan is alright too.

The biggest earthquake I can remember myself having was last year here in SoCal. I was in summer school and the 5.4 (richter, mind you) about 15-20 miles out got to us and the walls started making rumbling noises. At first it felt pretty standard (not the first earthquake i've felt) but it quickly turned into a concern. So I looked around with a worried look on my face for about 10 seconds, and a few seconds after the shake, I was like "so should we, like, duck and cover or something?"

"The Big One" scheduled soon is gonna be crap :[

As I am one of your twitter's follower, I was warned by your update and the shibuya246 update as well.
Happy to ear that nothing too bad happened. take care.

Felt terrible too yesterday at work... It's my first earthquake experienced since I'm reaching Japan.

I hope everyone is ok in Asia.

There have been a few earthquakes in Manchester England. Have the storms past you yet Danny? I heard 10 people died in Japan At least 10 people have been killed in Japan in flash floods generated by the approaching tropical storm Etau.

I hope everybody will be ok. There have been other typhons killing 1 in China and 12 in Taiwan

If you want to read more from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8192633.stm

Hope everyone takes care too. Typhoon Etau just went past Osaka, Yokahama and Tokyo. Maybe the Typhoon also caused the earthquake too

As some of the people have mentioned... this occurrence reminded me of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0... it's one of the few things I watched that actually made me scared... I have not experienced any major earthquakes in my life, ones that were very life threatening anyway. I hope nothing like what was shown in Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 would befall on any of us. Glad to know that your family is safe.

Wasn't Japan hit by a 7.1 yesterday?

Sounds pretty scarier and must be even more scarier being over there.

I live in the UK, so no earthquakes here.
If there were to be one, all the houses would collapse like water since none of the houses are earthquake proof.

Scary, hope it doesn't happen again any time soon. I've experienced an aftershock, but never an actual one. You always tell yourself don't panic, but sometimes it still happens anyways. Wonder how I would behave in such a situation...?

Puerto Rico occurs a few, but not above R5.4
In accordance with WAPA-TV, no tsunami warnings were issued, becvause there was no possible seismic warnings for that

lucky i wasn't in california when anything hit, was there for a long while. never been through a major earthquake before ( We all have been though minor ones, even here in florida) hope you are out of town or in a safe area when the big one hits tokyo danny..

Wow good thing you guys are safe! I only lived through one earthquake in Hawaii. Though it was bad enough to turn our whole state's power off for 12+ hours!

Didn't need an alarm clock this morning when I was woken by this..

Earthquakes happpen here. I experienced one back in middle school and a felt a smaller one a while ago. I'm just hoping that I can move before the big one comes. My place doesn't feel very earth quake safe ^^;. During the last earthquake all sorts of things were flying of shelves and it wasn't even that big D:

Aw man, and just when Tokyo Mag 8.0 is airing too.
It's bound to shake some people up. @_@

Damn! We missed it by 3 weeks or so!

Oh man. That second video is terrifying.

So glad earthquakes don't happen here in good ol' Australia ^^

I experienced 2 small earthquakes in England believe it or not (where I grew up). We had one down here in Ishigaki a few weeks ago and I must admit that it wasn't a pleasant experience. The problem with quakes in Japan is that you have no idea how bad it's going to get.

The only thing that keeps me from being 100% sure if I should live in Japan or not in the future is the earthquakes.

I can still remember the big earthquake here in Athens in 1999(and it was only 5.9) and I'm really scared at the thought that if I live in Japan I might experience an even bigger earthquake.

Every time I visit a country that doesn't have earthquakes I feel so safe XD(and I use elevators as well.Too afraid of using them at countries with earthquakes)