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Whoa, I felt that one…
I was teaching an English lesson with Shinobu via Skype this evening from my Chiba apartment when suddenly my room began to shake ever so slightly. I knew instantly it was an earthquake- a very light one, but I could see the tea in my cup ripple.
Anyway, in case you read or hear about this on the news, please don’t worry. I’m fine, and so is our family.
One cool thing about this quake was the speed in which I found out about it. As soon as the mini-tremors subsided (after about 20 seconds), I updated my Facebook and Twitter status. Two minutes later I had a reply from a friend with a link to this desktop earthquake info widget for Macs (Tremor Skimmer 3.0). I downloaded and installed it right away, then saw this pulsing circle near Tokyo.
When I clicked on the circle, I was taken to a website that had complete info on the quake. And this was only part of the info available! I was amazed at how fast all this was put together. As you can see, it was a magnitude 5.2 quake that centered in the Pacific ocean. I haven’t heard the news yet if there was any damage. Accessing the map I could see that the epicenter was about 70 miles from here (Tokyo). No wonder I could feel it!
Anyway, no worries! These things happen all the time. When looking around that website, I could see all sorts of tremors all over the world. It’s just part of life. Most quakes aren’t huge and don’t do much, if any, damage. So I’ll just get on with my life now…
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