Alright already, you HAVE my attention…



Wanna know how to wake everybody up???


Put em in a concrete building, surround same with metal scaffolding…


And shake with a 6.8 earthquake… Β THAT is a LOT of noise!!!


Needless to say, we departed the building rather quickly, but orderly…LOL


It appears the first quake at 1039L was a precursor quake, and fairly low level, but it rumbled long enough to notice. Β The second one was an S-wave quake, magnitude 6.8 located 140 miles from us, on the bottom of the Pacific, and lasted probably 15-20 seconds!


We quickly grabbed what ever comms we had, and were checking the net, JTWC, and anybody else we could get hold of to see if we needed to head to higher ground, but that proved to not be required (thankfully)….


And went to lunch… πŸ™‚

Comments

Alright already, you HAVE my attention… — 18 Comments

  1. I’m beginning to think it’s you. First Virginia, now this. Are you sure you’re not dragging around an earthquake jinx with you? Were you in Oklahoma this past week?

    Glad you’re OK.

  2. The workday could use a little interuption every now and then! Hope lunch was good. . .

  3. Danny- Things like THIS I could do without…LOL

    Keads- Me toooooo!

    PH- Yep and nope πŸ™‚

    Andy- Nah, another day, another meeting…

    Guffaw- It was a non-event over here, this is a weekly affair!

    DB- Not me, I was no where near Oklahoma!

    CT- Actually it was πŸ™‚ Yakisoba πŸ™‚

    Instinct- I truly hope not…LOL

    Tim- yeah, right πŸ™‚

  4. HT- THAT chased us out more than the earthquake did…LOL

    DC- Okinawa, and most of the locals ignored it… They get them on a regular basis here.

    ADM- Dull would have been preferable πŸ™‚

    SS- Yep πŸ™‚

    45- Agreed! The oddity is the earthquake apparently got little coverage outside Japan!