Not a Drill!

This past week my whole office was quiet when all of a sudden it felt like we were on a moving train.  It took me a solid few seconds to realize that we were experiencing an EARTHQUAKE! I was at work on the 40th floor of a building so were were able to feel the shaking quite noticeably.  I looked around and no one seemed to really be shaken up by this at all.  No one duck and covered! Once it was over I asked my boss why people were so calm, and he said because during the last big quake you could look at the window and actually see other buildings swaying.

What's crazy is that we could feel the quake so strongly all the way in Tokyo, when as you can see from the graphic below the earthquake was in the middle of the ocean off the coast of the Izu Penninsula! It ended up being a 6.5 magnitude quake, which is pretty significant.


After all these years in CA I had never actually felt a real earthquake.  It was honestly pretty cool to experience one and get to observe how everyone reacted! I definitely only feel this way because nobody got hurt and Japan is okay! Guess now not only have I survived a CA earthquake, but a Japanese one as well!