Hallucination? Not really..


Tonight my heart stopped for a while. I woke up and the door from my room was shaking and ground was waving. Fortunately it lasted just about few seconds. That moment I realised how the mother nature is powerfull and how people are helpless. Its kind of scary, you can do basically nothing just wait...so even if it was nothing big and pretty normal for most of the people here, I couldnt sleep for the rest of the night.

The worst earthquake  in Japan was in March 11, 2011, it was one of five biggest quakes on the world since the seismological record-keeping started. It caused tsunami waves up to 38 meters and huge accidents of nuclear power stations. My friend's friend who experienced this one thought that there is something wrong with his brain and I can bealive it, I also wasnt sure at some point if it was hallucination or reality. The magnitude of a  quake was 5.6 last night and was followed by other small quakes. In 2011 magnitude was 9.0 and lasted 6 minutes.

Experts are presuming that another big quake should be till the year 2016.  After the biggest quake in  2011 the number of small quakes rised which generally increase possibility of upcoming powerfull one again.

I will investigate what steps are made to eliminate damage and what is the emergency plan in the case one big quake comes.
So here is the answer. There are evacuation areas for each part of Japan-still need to find out where is mine. Of course its open space, so nothing can fall on you. If you are in the building its better to hide under the table, because of celling.  After 2011 people started to download special mobile application which will send you an alarm in the case of quake, so you know that you need to get to safety zone.

Japan is lucky that its a rich part of the world and engineers have money to develope better and better technologies for buildings. Not all the countries are so  blessed and it makes huge difference in impact. Magnitude 7 would be managable in Japan but for example in Phillipines would destroy everything....Kind of sad...

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  1. never experienced one, but we have friends in New Zealand that go through this regularly ;-)

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  2. Its something so out of human control, this scares me s bit:)

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