Earthquake.

A couple of days before leaving for Tokyo, Rob was saying that he would like to feel an earthquake, as long as it was not too big and it caused no damage to life or property.
Well our first morning in Tokyo Rob woke me about 7.00am and said 'Wake up! It's an earthquake!". I sat up, which rocked the bed a little, and still a bit drowsy replied 'I don't think so'.
Rob then told me to lie back and keep still, which I did and sure enough the bed was moving about 5 cm side to side in a gentle rocking motion. We lay there going 'OMG!'.
You have no control and as we were on the 11th floor of the hotel and still getting that sort of movement, it was awesome to think about the power in that quake.
The earthquake lasted about 15 seconds but was big enough to wake Rob up, so it may have been going for a little while before he woke. We turned on the TV and a report came up saying it was a fairly big one, about a 6 on the Reichter scale, with the epicentre somewhere off the coast of NE Japan. It was soon followed by an announcement from the hotel manager reassuring all guests that everything was fine.
Rob was very calm throughout, even though we were on 11th floor. He thought the movement was very fluid and gentle and before hearing the newscast had thought the quake must not have been very big. Luckily we were nowhere near the epicentre or it may have been a different story!
It might be politically incorrect, but Rob certainly got what he wished for.


Tokyo Tower