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irmongoose said:
No, not as in Yamato city. I just put Yamato because I had gotten tired of "Land of the Rising Sun" (which is Yamato translated into English). No, I live in proper Tokyo... Roppongi! Love the city!



irmongoose

So you are saying that Yamato, Japan, and "Land of the Rising Sun" are synomonous?
 
Each integer on the richter scale translates into a 10x increase in magnitude. A 8 point earthquake is 10 times stronger than a 7 point earthquake. Still a 7.0 earthquake is nothing to shake a stick at.
 
I saw the report on the news of this earthquake. Telephone poles were shaking all over the place! :eek:

I live in Aichi prefecture (central Japan) and felt not a thing. Strange. Kyushu is not that far from here.

I'm from Boston and we never have any, so when one hits it usually scares the * out of me. Especially quick ones where everything shakes for about 1 second and then stops. I get nervous for about 10 minutes waiting for the aftershocks. The big Tokai Earthquake is supposed to be coming, too.
 
Japan aftershocks

Hello.We in our country watch and listen about the devastations make by current earthquakes /tsunamies in Japan and read the message what has happened to you it is all about sufferings from wihich Japanese people are going through.But you especially live in which city or area and what are the most affected parts of Japan and what is the real story of losses and what are the further expectations of rehabilitations and harmas are expected in furture that I want to know from you please and if some pictorial review of there is supported then it would be also very helpful to better undestand the story about Japan's real earthquakes losses.hope to keep you as my best friends.

Well i was sitting in class today, we were talking about ghosts and our class started to shake a bit, but since i'm in Japan it's nuttin special but it shook a bit stronger and stronger until i fell off my chair and all the furnitire started to move, our teacher told us to run outside. Once we got outside everything started to shake more and the trees were just bending and a bus was dancing, the electric pole mas moving too. Everthyng was moving and it was LOUD! When it finally stopped everyone was in shock (I was shakking Soo much!) We were told not to go into school because they needed to check the damage. The Earthquake was a magnitude of 7.0...The strongest earthquake in history of this city. Our house is still standing even though it's trashed, my computer fell on the ground, my TV moved about 6feet away and my fridge moved too...Ohh and the washing and drying machines fell off of eachother. But everyone I know is Okay I will post some pics of the cracked ground later.

We had a Tsunami too, it was 50cm...LOL[/QUOTE]
 
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