Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Earthquake

So, last night around 1am Tokyo time there was a 6.8 earthquake. We had no idea it was that strong until we received some emails this morning checking on us. We first felt the earthquake around 1am and then another one about 20 minutes later. For the epicenter to be only 100 miles away, I'm surprised it didn't feel stronger. The room shook for about 30 seconds on the first one and about a minute the second time. Definitely felt weird. I was upstairs in our guesthouse in the computer/tv room and Evan was downstairs reading in bed. A guy walked into the tv room and said, "are people having sex?" Evan was by himself and noticed something was funny, but didn't think twice about it other than the fact that he shouldn't be shaking. However, upstairs all sorts of things were rattling and it was pretty clear it was an earthquake. All is well...we'll update more in a few days as we're off to the hot springs with Masa and Tami chan.

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