My second earthquake in Japan: sitting at working laughing with my coworkers when it hit. We're on the second floor and the whole building jiggled, diffferent from last time when my apartment block swayed methodically form side to side. It didn't last long but my heart was going doki doki doki for a long time afterwards. Amazing I was sitting on the internet, and the page continued to load as nature ravaged my courage.Apparently the second floor is the worst place to be in a building. If it collapses the ground floor stays intact, but the second floor disintergrates, whilst higher floors fare better even though they drop a storey!
Miekawa San immediately jumped on another computer to look up the stats for the earthquake, and they were immediately available. How do they do that? It felt really strong but was only a 3; the epicentre was a mere 20kms away on the border of Ehime, the next ken. We're not in the earthquake belt and that was a pretty rare one. Tanaka San rang her grandmother, maybe 7km away, to see if she was okay and she hadn't even noticed it!
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