Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing fine.
Just a quick update. If you follow me on any social network platform you probably already know about this, but I was awakened at 5:30am this morning when everything suddenly started to shake, my smartphone's alarm went off and outside there was also a loud alarm.
I jumped out of bed immediately, but had no idea what I should do!!!
I saw the big shelf next to my bed shaking like crazy and things kept felling down from it. All that shaking plus the two loud alarms just made me really anxious.



I quickly walked under my far too thin door frame.

I can't remember how long the quake actually continued, but when it finally stopped I crawled in front of my laptop to check what was going on.
I wanted to know how strong the quake was, where the epicenter was and if there's a tsunami warning.
As I don't have a TV or radio at home that was my only option.

Once I saw where the epicenter was, I was really shocked. It was almost the same as back in 1995 for the Great Hanshin Earthquake where parts of Kobe were destroyed and over 6000 people died!!!!

The earthquake was a lower magnitude 6, the one that killed many people almost 20 years ago was a bit over 7!!!!!!! (T____T)

Where I live it was "only" a 4 - and I'm sure that people who live in Tohoku or in Kanto can only laugh about it, but people around here, including me, are NOT used to quakes - especially not strong ones!
We were all quite shocked!


As I went to bed around 3am, I was so tired, but I was still shaking and aftershocks kept happening.
Every time it was shaking again, my heart almost stopped!



Finally it got a bit more quiet and after an early breakfast I crawled into my bed once again. After sleeping for maybe 1 or 1.5h I really felt refreshed.

I had to go to work then and talked to everybody about it. They were all just as shocked.
Throughout the day we had around 15 aftershocks!

They said on TV and online that we should expect more aftershocks for about a week and be careful.


Let's just hope that nothing big will come after that!



Later today I picked up all the things that fell down. It's a miracle that NOTHING broke! Even my little mirror that fell down was ok.

When I left for work I saw that the bicycles around my apartment all had fallen over. It was apparently shaking quite a lot.

I heard that the epicenter was almost the same, but in 1995 it was shaking up and down and this time it was "only" horizontal shaking from left to right. I'm no expert, so I have no idea what to make of this information. I always thought all earthquakes "shake horizontally" only.


Here are some articles about today's earthquake in case you want to know more:

• Strong earthquake hurts 23


• 24 injured after M6.3 quake hits western Japan

Experts say there will be a big earthquake by 2014 in Japan and that Mt. Fuji will erupt soon.
North Korea is also getting on our nerves.
It's just not very nice recently, is it?

Hope everyone else is safe!