Earthquake in Tokyo just now
No link, was watching the Japanese channel just now when they broke in with the news. 4.0 and seems to have been centered in Tokyo. I don't understand much, but they keep saying there's nothing to worry about.
On edit: 5.4 centered in Chiba under Tokyo Bay.
http://earthquaketrack.com/p/japan/recent
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Kawasaki. Around 5 pm, we were all working busily at our laptops, at tables, when the building just jerked back and forth about three times, there were some loud bangs from somewhere, and then everything was still. I was the only non-Japanese. All my co-workers just looked up at the first jolt, and then, when the building did not fall or whatever, just shrugged and went back to work. I saw that it was a tiny earthquake, on the TV, when I got back to my hotel room.
Twice in Tokyo, there were small earthquakes that jolted me in my high-up hotel room. It is the weirdest feeling, because I had never been in a building that moved before. But everyone was pretty blase about it. I do think that I would not want to be in Tokyo if a big earthquake hit - aside from falling buildings, there seems to be an awful lot of propane tanks.
But I would go back in a heartbeat.
and sway top floors of skyscrapers 3 feet or more.
Now THAT was enough to rattle nerves 
watching TV, when I heard a loud bang, and in an instant, the chair was right against the bed. Like a magic trick. Second hotel quake, I was sound asleep, and then there was pretty much the same way it would feel if someone had jumped from the ceiling onto my bed. I searched the entire room, which of course only took a minute , before the phone rang and the front desk informed me that there had been a quake and I could go back to sleep. My brain is/was just not wired to accept the movement that an earthquake causes.
