BIG ONE
November 30th, 2010
More later, you probably have heard….
Update: OK, that was a 6.9 quake–about 500km south of us, in the Pacific Ocean off the Ogasawaras. Surprisingly, it was rated just a “3” on the Japanese scale here in Tokyo, and there is no tsunami warning as of yet.
However, here in Shinjuku, it felt pretty major. The building (we are on the 6th floor) swung as hard as I can remember any quake I have been in. It went on for quite some time, too, that and the swaying nature letting us know it was distant. But had that hit us directly, I would have expected that to be rated at least a “4” on the Japanese scale.
Sorry I was so short in the original post, I was in the middle of work….
Nope, google news didn’t have anything on it when I read it here.
Checking yahoo I did see that T-ZONE finally gave up the ghost. . .
http://dailynews.yahoo.co.jp/fc/computer/akihabara/?1291088088
I probably bought more stuff there than anywhere else in Japan, by dollar volume.