Significant quakeage
I was at my office during yesterday’s 5.7 earthquake in Chiba. It seemed like it went on for a really long time. It was powerful enough to knock over some books on my desk and completely shut down the elevator in our building, but other than that no damage was done. It was, however, the first time an earthquake has made me want to dive for cover.
Our son, on the other hand, reportedly slept through the whole thing without stirring.
You’re the only person who seems to have noticed it online. I was in the middle of Ebisu when it happened. You could hear the glass rattle in the buildings around me.
This is the first quake in the last two years that effectively shut down every train system in Tokyo; it took me 4 hours to get home...weird…
I know what you mean. It took several hours for me to get home, too. When the trains finally did start running again, of course, all of them were packed.
The really sobering thing for me, though, was that I couldn’t get in touch with my family for several hours. My cell phone was pretty much useless the whole time—no e-mail, no outbound calls for the first few hours after the quake. It made me realize that we will definitely need to discuss an alternative means of establishing contact in the event of a real crisis.
I think it’s for this reason I still keep one of those telephone cards for the green phones in my bag just in case…
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