Jul 24, 2008
Yet Another Earthquake
Last night at around 12:30 we were woken by quite a long earthquake. It registered 2 on the Japanese scale where we live in Tokyo, and a much larger 6.8 at the epicenter in the northern coastal area of Iwate. Iwate is on the Pacific coast across from Akita, and according to the news this morning there were 2 people injured in Akita. Hope the family up there (including goldfish!) are ok.
It seems like there is an earthquake every week.
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prinsesamusang
i’ve been watching news channel asia and yeah it seems like earthquake thrives in japan these days. hope everything turns out okay. do you have any idea why all the earthquakes seem to center there?
Jul 27th, 2008
simon
japan lies on the meeting of several tectonic plates which means that japan has both lots of earthquakes, as well many volcanoes.
Jul 27th, 2008
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