Earthquake!

[IkemenTommy]

That was scary. Man i a m such a woss - earthquakes just totally freak me out. Is it quite commen to have them so often? Like there was the one on Sunday and one just now. Im such a girl......

No, it is the end of the world.
Now panic!

[gomichild]

*hugs Ichigo*

Yes honey it can be normal. Everything is OK though just try to relax a bit.

Sometimes a few happen in a row. (see Niigata quakes)

[IkemenTommy]

We're gonna die

[dingosatemybaby]

We're gonna die

Yeah, but it'll be in Sensurround(tm), starring Marjoe Gortner, Richard Roundtree, and a cast of several...

[karekora]

ah, twas only a wee one! Id wouldnt have known if it wasnt fot the light in my room swaying and windows shaking. I couldnt feel it, only hear it >_< (in Tokyo)

[GomiGirl]

Places I do not want to be when/if the big one hits.

Under the train tracks in an Izakaya in Yurakucho - this is where we were last night in Andy's but in the basement. Not the best feeling at all.

In a basement anywhere

Top of Tokyo Tower (not much danger of that)



What other places would be less than desirable?

[Taro Toporific]

Places I do not want to be when/if the big one hits.
What other places would be less than desirable?

As I regaled you and several other FGs in while drinking red plonk...

My first big Tokyo earthquake ---Mag 5.5 on the J-scale--- was in a basement disco, the Lexington Queen on a 150% full Friday night. The Roppongi girls started squealing like ass-raped ferrets on crack as the mirrored glass ceiling started to flex and pop. The emergency exit was chained shut in the standard Tokyo manner, so the entire disco tried to escape up the only usable exit --- the 1.5 meter wide basement stairs.
Such a pretty sight---real award-winning up-skirt catfight video potential: Gaijin Bimbo Models Vs. Roppogi-Girl Survivors. :P

[Charles]

Places I do not want to be when/if the big one hits.

Under the train tracks in an Izakaya in Yurakucho - this is where we were last night in Andy's but in the basement. Not the best feeling at all.

In a basement anywhere

Top of Tokyo Tower (not much danger of that)



What other places would be less than desirable?

On the sidewalk in front of a tall building with large plate glass windows.

[Greji]

[My first big Tokyo earthquake ---Mag 5.5 on the J-scale--- was in a basement disco, the Lexington Queen on a 150% full Friday night. The Roppongi girls started squealing like ass-raped ferrets on crack as the mirrored glass ceiling started to flex and pop. The emergency exit was chained shut in the standard Tokyo manner, so the entire disco tried to escape up the only usable exit --- the 1.5 meter wide basement stairs.
Such a pretty sight---real award-winning up-skirt catfight video potential: Gaijin Bimbo Models Vs. Roppogi-Girl Survivors. :P

With Bill Hershey as the narrator!

[Taro Toporific]

Gaijin Bimbo Models Vs. Roppogi-Girl Survivors. :P

With Bill Hershey as the narrator!

Disclaimer. No Roppongi girls or other wildlife of any kind were harmed during the making of Gaijin Bimbo Models Vs. Roppogi-Girl Survivors. The ceiling panels turned "flexed" and made popping sounds because they were glued-on reflective mylar not glass.

[Mulboyne]

What other places would be less than desirable?

Last Sunday, I was in Shibuya AX; yesterday it was The Ebisu Liquid Room. Those lighting rigs didn't look any safer this this time either.

[Kuang_Grade]

[GomiGirl]

I was thinking about this in the shower this morning and I did decide that a Japanese unit bath would be a bad place to be - naked and helpless in a room without windows.

Actually naked anywhere would be bad too as my moutain of clothes would be the first thing to collapse in my apartment I am sure.

On the toilet

In a subway tunnel - especially the Oedo line

A garden supply store

[Greji]

I was thinking about this in the shower this morning and I did decide that a Japanese unit bath would be a bad place to be - naked and helpless in a room without windows.
-ship-

Would you like to call me so we can discuss several of these shower and unit bath senarios in more intricate detail? hehehe

[IkemenTommy]

I was thinking about this in the shower this morning and I did decide that a Japanese unit bath would be a bad place to be - naked and helpless in a room without windows.
-ship-

Actually when that time comes, you can always kick the unit bath door and break it. You don't need a black belt to do it either. Just check it out yourself. Your landlord is a true asshole if he asked you to pay for the damaged door in a real earthquake.

[IkemenTommy]

Correction: make sure you wrap your feet around with a towel as you can get asubesuto splinters. That's not cool at all.

[gomichild]

Morning shakies....and a half metre tsunami on it's way.....

Tsunami expected for Miyage, Iwate and South-eastern part of Hokkaido.

[L S]

Was there any shaking in Tokyo from this one? Minor?

[puargs]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usfkbr.htm

A strong earthquake occurred at 21:38:54 (UTC) on Monday, November 14, 2005. The magnitude 6.9 event has been located OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 30 km (18 miles). (This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.)

Did you feel it?
Report shaking and damage at your location. You can also view a map displaying accumulated data from your report and others.

Nice timing with the tsunami post, Taro!

[Taro Toporific]

Nice timing with the tsunami post

Meh, the tallest "wave" was 50cm, but most were 30-10cm.

Tsunami pressure building near Tokyo
The Japan Times. Nov. 14, 2005
LONDON (AP) Geological pressure is building near Tokyo of the type that can trigger an earthquake capable of unleashing an oceanwide tsunami, a British expert said Sunday, putting the odds of such an event occurring in the next 70 years at two to one.... likely would be caused by a submarine earthquake similar to the one that unleashed the devastating Dec. 26 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, said professor Bill McGuire, head of the Benfield Hazard Research Center at University College London.
Such an event could occur along any of a number of fault lines, he said, but noted that pressure is building near Tokyo....more...

[kurohinge1]

Nice timing with the tsunami post

Meh, the tallest "wave" was 50cm, but most were 30-10cm ...

In that case, I think the warning sign requires a little revision ...

[fatslug]

still rocking .......fuck i hate earthquakes

[gomichild]

Was merely a 3....

[gomichild]

Geez what the hell is it with these quakes only in a small part of Kanagawa lately?

[ichigo partygirl]

Geez what the hell is it with these quakes only in a small part of Kanagawa lately?

missed that one..............Sure you just dont have a really overweight neighbour that only walks around sometimes??

[gomichild]

missed that one..............Sure you just dont have a really overweight neighbour that only walks around sometimes??

Hmmm well if so then they are heavy enough to alert tenki.jp...

[maninjapan]

anything below a magnitude 6 now doesnt bother me.

[IkemenTommy]

Geez what the hell is it with these quakes only in a small part of Kanagawa lately?

The sign that there will be a huge one coming soon.. just maybe.

[Greji]

The Doomsayers have been predicting for the past 50 years that "the Big One is going to hit Tokyo" any day now! Even after Kobe-Osaka, it was "that's nothing" wait until the big one hits Tokyo!

It's almost as if they can't wait. I suppose they have to be right sometime. It's been since when, the 1923 rumble? Christ, Japan has plate faults up and down it's entire length, they gotta hit the catfish one of these days!

[maninjapan]

The Doomsayers have been predicting for the past 50 years that "the Big One is going to hit Tokyo" any day now! Even after Kobe-Osaka, it was "that's nothing" wait until the big one hits Tokyo!

It's almost as if they can't wait. I suppose they have to be right sometime. It's been since when, the 1923 rumble? Christ, Japan has plate faults up and down it's entire length, they gotta hit the catfish one of these days!

Don't forgot that because Fuji has no snow on its top, they think its gonna erupt!