Hello everybody!

As most of you might already know several strong earthquakes hit Northeastern Japan today, especially Miyagi (Sendai) and Fukushima, but the quake was also quite strong in Tokyo which is about 400km away from there!
As I'm over 1500km away from Tohoku area, I didn't feel ANYTHING AT ALL!!! It was a lovely day with awesome weather. Quite peaceful. I didn't know what was going on until people on Twitter sent me messages asking if I was ok.
I then figured that something must have happened in Japan and checked the news when I saw the horrible pictures on TV everywhere!
Houses, cars, ships washed away by tsunami waves as if they were toys. Fires everywhere!
At the present time 5 atomic power plants were shut down.
There's a fire in one atomic power plant in Fukushima and they've called out atomic emergency! Radioactive leaking hasn't been confirmed yet, but it's definitely EXTREMELY dangerous!

It's said to be the strongest earthquake in 140 years with a magnitude of 8.8!
Even the infamous earthquake in Kobe (1995) had "only" a magnitude of 6.8!!!!!

I've turned on the TV ever since then and the pictures are terrifying! The number of dead or missing people is rapidly increasing!
Luckily I was able to confirm that my friends in and around Tokyo are all safe, still waiting for respond of some, though. Most of them don't have electricity or gas, though!
8 prefectures seem to be without electricity right now!

This is just too much!

Although everything is perfectly fine here, people say that this might be a "century earthquake" and that the 8.8 earthquake might have been only a pre-quake!!!!! There are definitely several aftershocks to be expected and as far as the news go, they are right now going on in several parts of Japan. The aftershocks could go on for weeks or really start in a few weeks from now. Nobody really knows what will happen and if the worst is already over!!! And that's what worries me the most right now! I'm going to Osaka next week and then in 2,5 weeks I'm off for spring vacation. Not close to the current epicenter, but still, nobody knows what will happen from now on!!!

It's so horrible what has happened and I hope that everybody will be safe!!! My thoughts are especially with the people in Miyagi and Fukushima Prefecture and all strongly affected areas as well as with all those people who are stuck in Tokyo right now and probably will have to spend the night in a train station or so :(

As much as I sometimes hate to live so far away from Tokyo and live in "no man's land" I really am happy about it right now as this area is one of the safest when it comes to earthquakes or tsunamis!!!

I hope everybody else is safe as well????!!!! ;_________________; It's so big that it's not only Japan, but also Hawaii, Taiwan and parts of America. The whole Pacific Ocean side has to be careful! Stay safe!!!

To everybody who sent me messages, thanks so much for worrying! For now I'm safe!

P.S.: As I posted on Twitter yesterday I had an extremely strong headache yesterday. Maybe one of the strongest ever! Usually I get headaches when there's extreme weather changes, but maybe this was a pre-quake-natural-disaster headache? :( No wonder it was so intense :/