Quake: 9/20/2003
A pretty strong quake just hit. I had just been on the phone with my father and sister for a few minutes when I felt the room shake. It wasn’t violent, but it was a pretty darned respectable shaking, probably the strongest I’ve felt in Japan so far. The glass doors on my video cabinet were shaking, and the ceiling lamp was swinging quite a bit. It has been announced on NHK as a 5.5 quake (don’t know if that’s Richter or Japanese scale), 80 km deep under southeast Chiba prefecture, just east of Tokyo. That’s not the biggest quake I’ve felt since in Japan, but it was the strongest because it was the nearest big quake.
Tenki.jp and Hi-net are both not responding, probably deluged by people like me, trying to access their pages to see about the quake.
More as it comes in.
Here’s a map that came from the Tenki.jp site, which is now responding again:
