Saturday, October 14, 2006
Surviving My First Quake in Japan
Well, I've been to Japan for my 3-month research grant since Oct 9 but was too busy to blog.
Now it seems an auspicious day to start because I was officially welcome by Japan's famous earthquake! :)
Well, it was very early in the morning and I was still fast asleep when I felt my stomach churning as if I was lying in my sea cot in a cruise line. It was more like a motion sickness than a quake.
I guess I was too far from the center of the quake so I did not feel it as the powerful 5 on the Richter Scale. It was not powerful enough to wake me up, so to speak. So I continued to sleep. It is a weekend morning, after all!
Here is the report about the quake in the news today.
Thank you, Mother Nature, for a earth-shattering welcome! ;-) It reminds me again of the law of impermanence. Nothing in life is permanent. One moment it's there. The other it's gone.
And on we go with our lives.
今日は面白いです。
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Strong quakes shakes Tokyo - MSN-Mainichi Daily News: "Strong quakes shakes Tokyo
A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 quake shook Tokyo and its vicinity Saturday morning, the Meteorological Agency said.
The quake struck at 6:38 a.m. (2138 GMT Friday) and was centered off the coast of Chiba Prefecture, the agency said in a statement.
There were no danger of tsunami, it said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the quake.
Japan sits atop four tectonic plates and is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. (AP)"
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After the quake, I went to Edo Tokyo Museum in the afternoon. See the pix here in the album below.
Now it seems an auspicious day to start because I was officially welcome by Japan's famous earthquake! :)
Well, it was very early in the morning and I was still fast asleep when I felt my stomach churning as if I was lying in my sea cot in a cruise line. It was more like a motion sickness than a quake.
I guess I was too far from the center of the quake so I did not feel it as the powerful 5 on the Richter Scale. It was not powerful enough to wake me up, so to speak. So I continued to sleep. It is a weekend morning, after all!
Here is the report about the quake in the news today.
Thank you, Mother Nature, for a earth-shattering welcome! ;-) It reminds me again of the law of impermanence. Nothing in life is permanent. One moment it's there. The other it's gone.
And on we go with our lives.
今日は面白いです。
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Strong quakes shakes Tokyo - MSN-Mainichi Daily News: "Strong quakes shakes Tokyo
A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 quake shook Tokyo and its vicinity Saturday morning, the Meteorological Agency said.
The quake struck at 6:38 a.m. (2138 GMT Friday) and was centered off the coast of Chiba Prefecture, the agency said in a statement.
There were no danger of tsunami, it said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the quake.
Japan sits atop four tectonic plates and is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. (AP)"
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After the quake, I went to Edo Tokyo Museum in the afternoon. See the pix here in the album below.
