re: #146 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

First earthquake experience tends to make you question your sense of reality

My first experience of a noticeable earthquake was being woken up in a hotel room at four in the morning, the day after I arrived in Tokyo for the first time. I felt the room shake and vibrate, thought “Oh, it’s an earthquake. Tokyo, right.” and went back to sleep. The next day it was mentioned on the breakfast TV shows well down the running order of news stories. IIRC it was about 4.5 Richter — the Japanese have a local scale that represents effects felt on the surface (SHINDO) rather than the energy-magnitude Richter scale where a big deep earthquake might not have a lot of effect on the surface.