QUAKE!! 1717 Here in Chiba

Bikkuri

[Bikkuri]

A pretty big quake just hit again...

[AmericanInTokyo]

For me, you can't STAND it and DETEST it, (this over and over and over business for almost a month now) and yet, oddly enough, you get used to it on the other hand and get toughened to it and even humor creeps in after a while. Weird.

I guess that is how they felt in Sarajevo after awhile just trying to go out shopping. In fact, what CAN you do about it -- except get right back to work after checking with loved ones, colleagues, the gas meter, elevators, etc. etc.

I sure hope CNN does not blow it out of proportion again and scare everyone back in the USA over it.

[Ronin]

Same here. I have become hypersensitive to them and it often feels like the ground is moving even when it isn’t. I have a coat hanger suspended from a hook over my computer so I can check.

My sense of humor has become decidedly warped. (Note tagline). I figure if I don’t laugh I’ll freak.

I think every time one of these hit, another 500 foreigners decide that it’s the last straw and starts making plans to leave. I can’t. Won’t. I won’t abandon my wife and she won’t abandon her mother.

[Zakeet]

More Information on the Quake

[Cvengr]

One at 2:32pm and one at 6:14pm on 11Apr11?, different locations.

[AmericanInTokyo]

You are a good man. Solid as they come, sir.

[tet68]

You all are solid. I can’t tell you how much
we appreciate your reporting and comments.
It’s the Freeper first person accounts that
make this site such a gold mine of information
and allows us to relate that much more.

Any thing we can do for you let us know.

Tet.

[RaceBannon]

I am just surprised at how we USED to think a 7.1 was huge!

[Explorer89]

I second that emotion. On the day of the big quake,
I had the TV on SkyNews, and the computer on freerepublic, looking for the real first hand accounts.

[Ronin]

They’re still pretty scary, mind.

But March 11 gave me a whole new perspective on total fear.

[edpc]

Still can be, depending on depth and soil conditions.

[topher]

Quake Info:

Magnitude 6.6 - EASTERN HONSHU, JAPAN: 2011 April 11 08:16:13 UTC

Map of Quake:

[topher]

You posted information for the 7.1 Earthquake on 07-April-2011, not the earthquake today 11-April-2011.

The earthquake today is a 6.6 magnitude earthquake.

[topher]

There are having a number of aftershocks in the area -- the largest was a 5.6 magnitude quake in the last hour.

Most of the aftershocks appear to be in this area East/Southeast of the Fukushima Prefecture...

[Whenifhow]

Animated - 956 Japan Earthquakes and Counting Since March 11 2011 to April 11 2011
http://www.japanquakemap.com/

[DAVOILTTE]

Prayers up from Texas- be careful and stay safe.

D.A.V.

[IYAS9YAS]

“what else is there to do” :p

Well, in my case, seeking out clean undies would be on the short list. Thankfully, I've never been in much of a quake.

[UCANSEE2]

AN after shock?

That area has been ringing like a bell ever since this started.

[UCANSEE2]

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[La Enchiladita]

Thinking of you all always as the unsettled conditions continue...

Please keep us advised.

[La Enchiladita]

6.6 was our Richter reading for the Northridge quake in SoCal, and that was horrific in my experience of EQs.