{"id":268,"date":"2008-05-09T00:32:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/more-earthquakes-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:32:12","slug":"more-earthquakes-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/more-earthquakes-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"More earthquakes in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m a bit late on this &#8212; I meant to write something last night, but never got around to it &#8212; but there was a medium-sized earthquake two nights ago (Wednesday night.)  Actually, it was early Thursday morning, at about 1:45am.  I was in bed, somewhat asleep, when my dreams started to become strange and wave-like.  The entire bed was swaying.  There have been a few small earthquakes in the two years that I&#8217;ve been in Tokyo, but this was one of the bigger ones.  In my strange dream-like logic, I thought &#8220;Should I wake up and run outside?&#8221;  I convinced myself that the rocking, wavelike motion was kind of pleasant, and somehow thought that I was a on a nice boat.  <\/p>\n<p>I feel back deep asleep again shortly.<\/p>\n<p>It was apparently a fairly big earthquake &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanprobe.com\/?p=4534\">showing up<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/victorymanual.com\/2008\/05\/08\/shaken-not-stirred\/\">the local blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Checking <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/eqcenter\/recenteqsww\/Maps\/10\/140_35_eqs.php\">some of the earthquake report sites<\/a> it looks like it was a 6.8 on the US scale, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jma.go.jp\/en\/quake\/3\/08015400391.html\">and a 4 or 5 on the Japanese scale<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, things were fine in my place.  I think a pen rolled off one of my tables, but that was about it.  I&#8217;m up on the 4th floor of a 4-story concrete &#8220;mansion&#8221;, and that thing really gets swaying!  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little worried now thinking about &#8220;the big one&#8221;.  <a href=\"http:\/\/benkei.blogspot.com\/\">Benkei<\/a> is convinced that the big one is coming and will hit Tokyo soon.  A friend of mine at work said the same thing.  I&#8217;m not so sure: I don&#8217;t really know much about how earthquakes work.  Since I&#8217;m in the process of buying a place here though, I&#8217;ve decided that the big one is not coming, and our new place will be built to withstand it even if it does hit.<\/p>\n<p>Unbridled optimism is a great power if only you can harness it correctly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m a bit late on this &#8212; I meant to write something last night, but never got around to it &#8212; but there was a medium-sized earthquake two nights ago (Wednesday night.) Actually, it was early Thursday morning, at about 1:45am. I was in bed, somewhat asleep, when my dreams started to become strange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}