The talk of the day today was the series of earthquakes that struck us in the early hours of the morning today.
It was around 2am when I first felt small jolts. Having already experienced some earthquakes in my first 3 weeks, I ignored it and concentrated on trying to sleep when a slighly larger one caught my attention. Even then I did nothing initially as I trusted Japanese construction. But when the next quake struck and brought down some of the stuff in my shelf, it had me up in a jiffy.....outside I heard some of the other guys from my dorm who had decided to go outside. Not only was the quake strong (and I mean STRONG), its duration was also scary...it went on and on for several minutes as if someone was trying to demolish our dormitory.
Later in the day, one of my senseis told us that the earthquake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale...lets just say that as far as earthquakes are involved, one experience is enough for me.
It was around 2am when I first felt small jolts. Having already experienced some earthquakes in my first 3 weeks, I ignored it and concentrated on trying to sleep when a slighly larger one caught my attention. Even then I did nothing initially as I trusted Japanese construction. But when the next quake struck and brought down some of the stuff in my shelf, it had me up in a jiffy.....outside I heard some of the other guys from my dorm who had decided to go outside. Not only was the quake strong (and I mean STRONG), its duration was also scary...it went on and on for several minutes as if someone was trying to demolish our dormitory.
Later in the day, one of my senseis told us that the earthquake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale...lets just say that as far as earthquakes are involved, one experience is enough for me.
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