A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country's central region on Monday.

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s central region on Monday.

  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
    57·
    6 months ago

    I live in western Japan, and felt this earthquake even here - it lasted as long as the 311 Tohoku quake, and an NHK news announcer was screaming for people in the Noto area to flee to higher ground because of the tsunami.

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
      291·
      6 months ago

      I had to watch another station because that woman was just yelling into the mic nonstop. I understand, but for someone watching from Saitama it was too much.

      Thankfully, the warning was overblown. One wave hit the breakwater in Noto, but it wasn’t as big as they were expecting. More damage was done by a gas fire inside the city. And I think they’re trying to locate some people after a few buildings with old clay-shingled roofs collapsed.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
        18·
        6 months ago

        After the video footage I seen from the last tsunami I would imagine that people are pretty fucking traumatized and will react that way for the rest of their lives.

        I was traumatized from the footage and I have no personal connections to anyone in Japan.

        • Drusas@kbin.social
          2·
          6 months ago

          Can confirm, was living in Tohoku during the 2011 disaster.

          I live in Washington now and still do things like check geological maps to avoid living in areas that are prone to liquefaction and pay attention to signs so as to be aware of tsunami evacuation routes when I visit the coast.

    • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      6 months ago

      If you have family in the area I hope the best for them, what a terrible event.

    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
      11·
      6 months ago

      The news (I’m watching TV now) is still warning people to evacuate, showing it in big letters and with exclamation points, and in English along with Japanese, so the threat isn’t over yet.

      • A_A@lemmy.world
        32·
        6 months ago

        I hope you well and, from the little I can see, it would have been about 70 km from the main coast, you should be fine by now 👍

        • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
          11·
          6 months ago

          There was literally a Jp magnitude 5 aftershock not 5 minutes ago, and the news is still blasting “evacuate” messages on the screen, so…

          I’m lucky, I’m far enough away that it was only about a Jp 4 here, but over 30,000 homes are without power in winter and at least one major cellular phone company is reporting they’re down in Ishikawa. It’s not fine at all.

          • A_A@lemmy.world
            21·
            6 months ago

            I was trying to be reassuring but of course this is a difficult situation for you and more so for the people in those 30,000 homes and even worse for the few people who lost a relative in those quakes.
            Fortunately, you are amongst the lucky ones and there was no large tsunami as I have hoped so before.

            So again, I hope you well and if you can take some rest and distance yourself somewhat from those bad news and bad screens it might help.

            Take care and despite everything I wish you a Happy (happier) New year