Quake 2 Tokyo Tremor − 2 February, 2006
Quake 2: Tokyo Tremor
It’s my third week in Tokyo and I was wondering when I might feel the Earth move. Well, in the office last night (twelfth floor) it happened. This is the second tremor I have experienced in my life; the first one was in Los Angeles and it shook me awake. The Tokyo tremor was quite different. It was a slow movement – I perceived it as a lump moving up through the floor for about a second. The whole building rose up a bit and then shook from side to side. The whole experience lasted no more than 4 seconds.
The IT infrastructure (discounting the banks) in Japan seems to be excellent. As soon as the quake had occurred, my colleague showed me the live data on a quake web-site. It’s in Japanese, but there was a map of the country and a colour coding scheme for the size of the tremor – green through to red. We hit a yellow (level 3 – not Richter scale). A level 4 means that a building is likely to fall down and things fall off!
Another first for me.
It’s my third week in Tokyo and I was wondering when I might feel the Earth move. Well, in the office last night (twelfth floor) it happened. This is the second tremor I have experienced in my life; the first one was in Los Angeles and it shook me awake. The Tokyo tremor was quite different. It was a slow movement – I perceived it as a lump moving up through the floor for about a second. The whole building rose up a bit and then shook from side to side. The whole experience lasted no more than 4 seconds.
The IT infrastructure (discounting the banks) in Japan seems to be excellent. As soon as the quake had occurred, my colleague showed me the live data on a quake web-site. It’s in Japanese, but there was a map of the country and a colour coding scheme for the size of the tremor – green through to red. We hit a yellow (level 3 – not Richter scale). A level 4 means that a building is likely to fall down and things fall off!
Another first for me.
