[Akai-San]

Quote: Originally Posted by Brian There was a pretty powerful earthquake late this afternoon, which left me stranded in Shinjuku for about 4 hours. This is the biggest one that I've ever felt, and I'm not ashamed to say...I was scared! Alarms were going off everywhere and most train service experienced outages. My train line shut until tomorrow, so I had to find another way home. No major damage though, so no need to worry. Well Akai-san, you've experienced your first earthquake, so I guess this is your formal welcome to Japan!

Brian,
They didn't have to go through all that trouble to welcome me. I must say though, I did get scared. I was in my room when I started to here all the black crows sounding off in the distance. Then it started, first a slow side to side, I thought..."what the?" Then the tremor got a little longer and more steady...I think that was the fastest I've seen this body whip out a door down three flights of stairs and out of the building...must have been three seconds flat...Hahaha. Outside, all the light poles were still shaking a couple minutes after the wave. I'm glad after shocks didn't continue throughout the day, I probably wouldn't have gone to sleep.