じしんだった！

Just felt my first Tokyo earthquake(じしん）! A little scary, but it was nothing terrible or destructive. I was sitting on my bed looking at my notebooks and checking what classrooms my classes for the first day of school were, and I felt my entire bed shaking and rocking.. then I noticed the stuff on my desk was moving back and forth rhythmically. It wasn't rough, it was pretty gentle, but it was a little alarming because it had the potential to get more intense. Luckily it didn't and then it was just kind of a cool sensation until it stopped. I tried to make a split second decision to go to the safest place in my room, and since I've heard that standing in a doorway or solid frame is pretty safe, I opened my balcony sliding door and stood in the frame. I'm not entirely sure what the safest place was, but it wasn't the most dangerous. My desk is pretty flimsy so I feel like any earthquake rubble might have the potential to break it. Let's hope there's not another one after that though! :) I wonder what magnitude it was! And what the center was.. My friend texted me right after it (maybe 30 seconds after) and I looked online and people were already twittering about it... Oh, the online world.


I just found a nice website about it already, and took a look. 4.9 magnitude! That seems kind of big. But I think the destructive ones are more like 6 or 7, and they multiply in damage as they get bigger in sesmic scale. I don't know. I'm not a geologist.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010brbk.php
Good night Tokyo! It's my first day of school at Keio University tomorrow! Wish me luck. I've got Human Resource Management from a Psychological Perspective, Language Beyond Grammar, and Intermediate Aural Comprehension (maybe, if the japanese teacher approves my japanese level for the class). またね！