I woke up this morning at 6:39am thanks to a small earthquake. At least, I think it was small. It registered a 4 on the Japanese scale in Setagaya-ku, but I don’t really know how that translates. In some of the earthquake materials I’ve read, a 4 is enough to possibly unstack your dishes and move things around on your shelves. My dishes made it through ok.

I like how within a minute or two of an earthquake, NHK will interrupt broadcasting and switch to “earthquake mode”, where they read off affected areas and other information as comes in. Earthquake mode broadcasting only lasted about ten minutes, so you know it wasn’t really a bad one.