A couple of minutes after I stoped laughing and got rather sick in my stomach. An earthquake... There had been one or two very light earthquakes since I came here, but this one was a much stronger one. Not just a little tremor, but rather heavy shaking as I had experienced only in the earthquake simulator in Fukuoka last year (http://clod-lost-in-translation.blogspot.com/2008/07/preventing-disasters.html). My friends laughed about it, but I thought it was not that funny especially considering that a major earthquake is long overdue in the Kanto area, the last one was the huge disaster of 1923 which left over 100`000 dead. Statistics say about every 70 years an earthquake of that magnitude happens, so make your calculations...
I learned on the internet later that yesterday`s earthquake had had a magnitude of 6.9, some sources say 7.1 and had
It`s also typhoon season in Japan and tomorrow the large typhoon that was sweeping over Taiwan on Friday is passing near Tokyo, so some heavy rain is expected. The South of Japan however is much more affected and the typhoons occur every year in late summer. This is definitely a country with a lot of natural action, be it earthquakes, typhoons or volcanos. Not quite used to that yet.
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