its-a-clock 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Seems there was a 5.1 this morning in Tokyo. Anyone feel it? Link to post Share on other sites
mogski 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Feel it?! I ran for the door eves!! That was a big one!! Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Rather you than me. That big was it? Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 I didn't feel it. I hear that there was 2 last night. I certainly felt the one on Saturday lunch time (EnderZero didn't, he was stumbling around still drunk trying to remember how he got home). Is there a good English quake monitoring web site? Link to post Share on other sites
Antonio 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Was about 1am wasn't it? Felt like i was rolling round on a waterbed for a second or two then disappeared. A few little tremors afterwards as well. Any damage reported? Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 I was taking shower and felt it around 1am. I don't want earthquake when I'm naked. Link to post Share on other sites
Goemon 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Not sure about English info, but NHK usuals reports the magnitude and epicenter of the earthquake within a few minutes with a text message at the top of the screen. Even if you can't understand Japanese, you should be able to make out the magnitude number (I thought last night was a 3). Link to post Share on other sites
MistaSparkle 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Thats two quakes this weekend!! wtf is going on? There was one saturday morning around noon, but the one last night was strong (5.1), and there was an aftershock. Link to post Share on other sites
Bowler 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 I felt the 1am one in saitama. absolutely crapped mi sen! mi walls were shaking like mad! i heard it was a 5! Link to post Share on other sites
sunrise 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Yep, I was surprised at the second one - seemed just as intense..... Usually only get those ones in single doses. Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 Ha! While I might have missed the Saturday shaking I definitely felt the one last night whilst db was getting his beauty sleep. It was kinda loud too, but short. Then the second one was even shorter. First quake I have felt in Japan, although they seem to be quite frequent. Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 3 people injured apparently. http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=ACFF6D55-5E14-4557-BA74-EC9D57B2F0E8 Link to post Share on other sites
powwwers 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 i live about 70 k`s nth. of tha big T, and i was awoken from my slumber. apparently, up this way it measured about a 3. it`s a worry. only a matter of time i rekon, but then i`m no expert. just a thought... Link to post Share on other sites
MistaSparkle 0 Posted May 12, 2003 Share Posted May 12, 2003 I just did a little google searching on the kobe earthquake and dug this site up... totally psyched myself out. Scary stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
rajeem 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Anyone in the Kobe area at the time of the earthquake? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 I was in central Osaka, so it wasn't really a quiet morning... Link to post Share on other sites
rajeem 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Tell us more - what was it like? Link to post Share on other sites
amandanism 0 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 do a search on the gujurat earthquake in 2001 something like 20,000 died. Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted May 13, 2003 Share Posted May 13, 2003 Very frightening I would have thought. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 I thought it was a nuclear attack. As a Briton, one (I) expect that a huge rumbling noise that gets progressively closer is the shock wave of a nuclear blast. Before I was fully awake, I heard the noise, hugged my wife goodbye, and watched the books streaming off my bookshelf in the morning light. After several moments of hugging my wife goodbye, we got out of bed and grinned at each other, clutching the walls as the floor bucked up and down. The building was swaying and making horrible cracking noises. We wondered when it was going to collapse. When it stopped enough to walk properly, we put the TV on and heard the first of thousands of reports on the earthquake. We soon realized how lucky we were not to be in Kobe. Several of my acquaintances in the area simply left Japan - they couldn't stand the thought of going through the same thing again. A German friend of mine from Ashiya was a refugee for weeks after his house was destroyed - I couldn't get in contact with him at all. He had aged 10 years the next time I saw him. We suffered no damage, but we could see smoke rising from the center of Osaka. There were a number of other shocks during the day. An awful lot of clocks fell of walls and pointed poignantly to quarter to six or whatever time it was. For me, it was an enjoyable experience - I survived and it was the damnedest thing to live through. But it was really horrible for a lot of other people, and it wrecked their lives. If and when the Big One hits Tokyo, it's going to be horrible beyond words. Having watched Japanese firemen try to deal with one burning house, God knows how badly they'll manage millions, plus a good few petrol stations and gas storage tanks... Link to post Share on other sites
MistaSparkle 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Speaking of "the big one" in Tokyo... I always hear that "most buildings these days are built to withstand major earthquakes." How much of an overestimation do you think that is? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 There are a lot of factors involved. You don't know which building you'll be in when it hits. There are a lot of unknowns about the mechanics of earthquakes. You might be standing next to the unsecured oak bookshelf in the building that is designed to sway but not break in the earthquake. Building codes are not necessarily observed in practice. Your earthquake-proof building may be located in the middle of tinderwood old buildings that may generate a firestorm of sufficient heat to melt your building. Most buildings built these days are earthquake-proof, but most buildings weren't build these days. Don't let it bother you. You have to die of something... Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 Nice story there Ocean about your experiences in Osaka. Scary stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 I got to the airport on the 15th of Jan that year I think after travelling for about 2 days and had some jingles in my pocket so called my Mum. She was like "are you ok" really worried and I had no idea there had been a quake. Turns out we had left Kobe 24 hrs before the quake. Freaky. But I wouldnt be too worried. Im sure youve got a much higher chance of dying in a aeroplane crash or getting run over by a car. Just put your bed in the safest part of your appt and enjoy the ride when it comes! Personally I think Japan has much less earthquakes that we had in NZ. Just another aside to make you feel REALLY good, aparently downtown Wellington will be covered in 6ft of glass when the big one hits. I wonder what the skyscraper land of tokyo will be like! Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted May 14, 2003 Share Posted May 14, 2003 6 foot o glass? That would make life interesting! I remeber when i lived in HK we had a really strong typhoon hit us and the wind was just amazing. Our apartment was on the 17th floor and the whole building was swaying back and forth because of the wind. Apparently it was designed to do this, but it was very unnerving when you are so high up in a building. Link to post Share on other sites
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