View Full Version : my first Earthquake
zealotbat
2005-12-24, 12:03 PM
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CLOWNPUNCHER
2005-12-24, 12:20 PM
Wow an Earthquake. Welcome to Japan....
oceglok
2005-12-24, 12:43 PM
Yeah, ny coffee spilled over. What a drag to start christmas eve by cleaning coffee stains from my desk, grumble grumble...
oceglok
captain
2005-12-24, 12:47 PM
I too was excited about my first earthquake :D
the people I was with at the time were running around screaming but it was enjoyable. haha good times.
cannish
2005-12-24, 02:51 PM
I spent two years in Japan before I felt my first quake. I even went through a couple big ones that tore up roads and such nearby without knowing it. I guess I was jumping or passed it off as dizziness or something. Makes you think what a big one would feel like doesn't it. Even the little ones are crazy!
person
2005-12-24, 02:55 PM
Well my first earthquake here in Nagoya...pretty cool. I’m in the JR Marriott above the station. Just above the 40th floor. My floor was bouncing slightly with some rattling noise.. Cool.....well cool as along as no one gets hurt.
Well, if you were on the 40th floor and only felt slight bouncing and heard some rattling, I have reason to be concerned. I'm here in Nakamura-ku on the 3rd (top) floor of a "mansion" (I know, not so high but they call it a mansion) and I felt...way the hell more than that. I had my shoes and coat on so fast.........(heart beating fast now just thinking about it!!!).
I think it's time for Person to move. Perhaps Anneha (sp?) had a hand in designing this building ;)
Well, if you were on the 40th floor and only felt slight bouncing and heard some rattling, I have reason to be concerned. I'm here in Nakamura-ku on the 3rd (top) floor of a "mansion" (I know, not so high but they call it a mansion) and I felt...way the hell more than that. I had my shoes and coat on so fast.........(heart beating fast now just thinking about it!!!
It's a funny one that. I used to work for a school in which the preschool department had 3 classrooms in 2 different buildings (2 rooms on the 3rd floor of 1 building and my classroom on the 3rd floor of the other). I remember situations where my room felt like it was going to fall apart and the guys next door didn't even notice. Even more scary was th fact that I had 15 kids to look after.
But yes, my first quake was a good rush...
spliffmon
2005-12-24, 08:58 PM
I'm here in Nakamura-ku
I don't think there is a Nakamura-ku. Maybe you live in the Nakamura district of Nerima-ku?
... or maybe you're just in Nakamura-ku in a city other than Tokyo...
person
2005-12-24, 09:09 PM
I don't think there is a Nakamura-ku. Maybe you live in the Nakamura district of Nerima-ku?
... or maybe you're just in Nakamura-ku in a city other than Tokyo...
The OP is in Nagoya...I assure you, I know where I'm living :)
Surprise, surprise -- there is a world outside of Tokyo (say it isn't so!?!?) ;)
Have a friend in Nerima-ku so familiar with that area too; Nihon Univ.?
Namaste
2005-12-24, 10:28 PM
At 11:02 A.M. This morning, before heading off to work, the 5 seconed 4.8 quake shook the hell out of my 60 year- old all-wooden ko-po style apertment here in Nagoya. 2 seconds into the quake I was up on my feet turning off all the gas valves (1 for the heater, 2 for the stove). After the scare I was down at the subway station ready to go to work, but not to my suprise higashiyama line wasn`t running.
Regards,
person
2005-12-24, 10:31 PM
At 11:02 A.M. This morning, before heading off to work, the 5 seconed 4.8 quake shook the hell out of my 60 year- old all-wooden ko-po style apertment here in Nagoya. 2 seconds into the quake I was up on my feet turning off all the gas valves (1 for the heater, 2 for the stove). After the scare I was down at the subway station ready to go to work, but not to my suprise higashiyama line wasn`t running.
Regards,
Are you serious? I live on Higashiyama-sen. I can't imagine it stopping. For a long time? Of course, I could easily walk to Nagoya station...I just don't.
My bldg. is concrete though I'm not so sure about its stability. Do you feel safe in a wooden bldg.?
Must remember about the gas...next time...and I trust there will be a next time. :(
Namaste
2005-12-24, 10:46 PM
I`m serious.... I was down at the station at 11:15 a.m., and the there was actually a fujigaoka-bound train stopped about 30 meters away from the platform. (in the tunnel)... The station manager was on the horn announcing the lines coming to a stop because of the quake. Just imagine what`s going to happen when the `big one` comes. Scary to think about.
CLOWNPUNCHER
2005-12-24, 11:48 PM
Try living in Kanto.
We get quakes of that size all the time.
The trains stop so they can check the lines.
4.8 no big deal.
survivorfan
2005-12-25, 10:48 AM
I bet the higashiyama line stopped because the quake was an up-and-downer rather than the side-to-side. It might have knocked a train off the line.
My house is new and I felt a good deal of that quake, enough so that a clock fell off my tv. It was certainly a shocker!