Earthquake!

[Yokohammer]

And to the guys, let's keep it civilized...

Party pooper!

[Coligny]

Party pooper!

SheiSS porno time !!!

Yeah...

(I'm soooo out of here...)

[Samurai_Jerk]

Nice little jolt there.

[matsuki]

Nice little jolt there.

Woke me up

[GomiGirl]

Nice little jolt there.

I thought there must have been one. I was out walking with GomiJunior and the electrical wires were rocking and rolling.

[CrankyBastard]

Sure is a lot of shaking going on this afternoon!!:(

[Samurai_Jerk]

That was two in a row.

[Coligny]

The quake alert party started this morning... (Yurekuru should be location aware... ridiculous to have to set it manually while the IPhone can tell if you are in your kitchen or in the loo)

[yanpa]

[IparryU]

If anyone is wondering why they got woken up the other day at about 2am by their mobile shrieking a little earthquake warning ditty, it's because the sensor thingumies got all confused about where exactly and how strong the earthquake was, so defaulted to "warn just in case".


http://www.sponichi.co.jp/society/news/2012/02/29/kiji/K20120229002734660.html

ya... woke me and the wife up.

whenever there is a slight shaking my wife always runs to the door to open it... but if it was a big earthquake, running to the door can mean breaking your legs or causing some other damage that would make you unable to proceed to the next series of fucked situations...

not to mention by the door is a 2 meter sliding glass door... so if the quake was big enough she would be in a pile of broken glass...

back on topic... pissed me off cause there was no quake after the message... gets kinda fun now, seeing how big of a quake comes after the message and why there is no message for the long one like last night.

[Iraira]

back on topic... pissed me off cause there was no quake after the message... gets kinda fun now, seeing how big of a quake comes after the message and why there is no message for the long one like last night.

I cancelled my early warning "subscription", as it started to feel like a girlfriend saying to me on a Monday morning, "Y'know what, next weekend, we need to talk." and you got to sit around for awhile wondering what she found out, what she's PO'ed about, whether she's pregnant, etc. Just start shaking me around, drop a 5-ton steel beam on my head, and get it over with already. Disasters don't need an overture.

[yanpa]

I suppose when it really matters (in my case the directly-below-Tokyo-M7+ the chattering classes are chattering about recently) there won't be any warning anyway.

FWIW there's a nice article in this week's AERA with a rundown of the designated evacuation areas and their likelihood of being surrounded by all sides by burning neighbourhoods. Oh yes, and something about a "Shinjuku faultline".

[matsuki]

I suppose when it really matters (in my case the directly-below-Tokyo-M7+ the chattering classes are chattering about recently) there won't be any warning anyway.

FWIW there's a nice article in this week's AERA with a rundown of the designated evacuation areas and their likelihood of being surrounded by all sides by burning neighbourhoods. Oh yes, and something about a "Shinjuku faultline".

Oh what we have to look forward to..

[yanpa]

Oh what we have to look forward to..

Glad I could brighten your day!

[Coligny]

FWIW there's a nice article in this week's AERA with a rundown of the designated evacuation areas and their likelihood of being surrounded by all sides by burning neighbourhoods. Oh yes, and something about a "Shinjuku faultline".

So tat's how they call hooker's cooch up there...

AWESUM !!!

[Coligny]

Glad I could brighten your day!

He's still young, a littul nothing (pizza diner, ampanman reruns, free balloons) and he jumpz for joy...

[Coligny]

I cancelled my early warning "subscription", as it started to feel like a girlfriend saying to me on a Monday morning, "Y'know what, next weekend, we need to talk." and you got to sit around for awhile wondering what she found out, what she's PO'ed about, whether she's pregnant, etc. Just start shaking me around, drop a 5-ton steel beam on my head, and get it over with already. Disasters don't need an overture.

It was a busy night anyway:

http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/20120229233200.html
http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/20120301073200.html
http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/20120301111200.html
http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/20120301122500.html

Seems we got a #2 alert around 23:xx but I wuz clearly to wasted to hear aboot it... (weather is playing excessively bad tricks on my old bones)

[matsuki]

He's still young, a littul nothing (pizza diner,[color="Red"] lemur[/color], ampanman reruns, free balloons) and he jumpz for joy...

teehee

[IparryU]

:D teehee

he was referring to you as the lemur...

[dimwit]

"Y'know what, next weekend, we need to talk." and you got to sit around for awhile wondering what she found out, what she's PO'ed about, whether she's pregnant, etc. Just start shaking me around, drop a 5-ton steel beam on my head, and get it over with already. Disasters don't need an overture.

And 'talk' is the thing that you are never ever allowed to do in those situations.

[matsuki]

:smile:
And 'talk' is the thing that you are never ever allowed to do in those situations.

Indeed, but most lemurs don't even give you that much closure, they just fade away

[dimwit]

Indeed, but most lemurs don't even give you that much closure, they just fade away

You sir, are a young man. I, on the other hand, am old enough to be Greji's grandson.

[yanpa]

I will of course be safe and sound sipping wine in my levitating, quake-proof house:

[YT]lzSuuk4um44[/YT]

[Coligny]

:smile:
And 'talk' is the thing that you are never ever allowed to do in those situations.

Seriously... I sometimes fell I'm not on the same planet as you...
The "we need to talk" situation usually involve scheduling a meeting room. two team of legal consultant catering for several days at least real time teanscript and more security guards than a bildurburg birthday party...

(but usually involve situations where there is simply no Good solution and oppose the "then can do nothing shoganai" team versus the "this solution suck more than my sister at her birthday sausagefest party but at leat it's trying to do something" team)

[IparryU]

As I mentioned I have learned much about this topic over the last year through a couple of strange coincidences. Long story short, it started with the quake and then I began getting outdoors for unrelated reasons and after getting lost enough times I began reading up with a passion. If nobody has any objections I'll start a thread on disaster preparedness in Japan tomorrow or the next day with some good links and such. One thing I've learned is starting to talk "survival" can go downhill real quick so that's why I am leery.. But it's a topic I've thought much about and unique info for us in English is hard to find. Would be super cool to here the other's FG input too.

ya so please do start the topic... quake day is soon to come...

[Coligny]

ya so please do start the topic... quake day is soon to come...

search betta it wuz started... but is a bit messy

[nikoneko]

Yes I did start it, it's in this forum under the topic "Disaster Preparedness FG Style". It did get a bit messy but there are some good posts about bug out bags and other things. I keep hoping to do another post about evacuation options as that's one really important part that is missing.

[canman]

Tsunami warning on a Wednesday night! Luckily it didn't amount to much, but we had a good little shake about an hour ago. My students dropped to the floor and under the table faster than you could say Tepco! Magnitude 7, but only shindo 4 here in Hachinohe. The rest of the hour the kids were spooked. My wife as well!

[Mike Oxlong]

Looks like you guys got a 6.8 according to the JMA...

http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120314182127491-141809.html

[Taro Toporific]

NICE WIGGLE in Tokyo!

Magnitude 6.1 Intensity 5+ earthquake Mar-14 21:05 JST at Chiba-ken Toho-oki (35.8N/141.1E) Depth 10 km http://j.mp/A42gpq
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120314195447389-141949.html