It’s been an awfully long time since I felt an earthquake…there’s been a few in other parts of Japan but nothing in Tokyo for well over a month.
I get nervous when I don’t feel the earth wiggle a bit. If the pressure builds up for too long, there’s a bigger chance that things will topple when it finally does give.
Wonder if people who’ve always lived on fault lines feel this way? Am I especially sensitive because I’ve only been in the danger zone for four years? Earthquakes are starting to feature in my dreams; I hope I feel the earth move (just a little) soon.
Posted by kuri at September 29, 2002 01:13 PMWell we just had one hon - feeling better now?
Posted by: gomichld on September 30, 2002 11:21 AMI was underground on the subway when it happened—I didn’t even feel it. But I knew if I wrote about the lack of them, we’d have one. Works every time.
Posted by: Kuri on September 30, 2002 03:38 PMBeing a native of the San Francisco bay area, I noticed how in Tokyo we would get a small quake every couple of weeks. I too would notice if we hadn’t had one for over a month.
Anyway, I noticed because in California we usually get a significant earthquake maybe once or twice a decade, but compared to Tokyo, we wouldn’t get those tiny reminder tremors that we lived in an earthquake zone.
I always wondered if this just meant Tokyo is more earthquake prone than San Francisco, to both big and small quakes, or if the small quakes had something to do with releaving stress to prevent bigger ones.
Somehow it seems appropriate - Americans like things bigger but fewer in between, while in Japan things are smaller but it seems so much more crowded.
-Jason
Posted by: Jason Cha on October 1, 2002 04:06 AMHow about I just visit and use the loo? “Jenn’s Movement,” remember?
Posted by: Jennifer on October 1, 2002 10:07 AM