[sumo] [OT] Sunday Earthquake/Tokyo

[Carl Freire]

At 12:24 PM -0400 8/9/09, Jeanne Hedge wrote:
>Anyone have anything to report about the Sunday night earthquake off 
>the coast that shook Tokyo and eastern Japan?

It rattled the doors in my place and had me watching my desk lamp 
sway back and forth, but that was about it.  Pretty long, 
though--felt like about 30 seconds, which is a little unnerving, but 
no damage reported anywhere.

Hardly a mention in the Japanese papers this morning, other than to 
say that trains were stopped as a precaution.  The lead story today 
is the news that it will be p--sing rain and people in hilly areas 
should be on the look out for mudslides.  P--sing rain outside as I 
wait for my morning coffee to brew, but no hills nearby so I at least 
should be OK. :-)

Cheers,
Carl
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Carl Freire
cfreire /[@]* ix.netcom.com
Tokyo, Japan