MY FIRST EARTHQUAKE

I wanted to blog today about manga, porn and photo booths but I just experienced my first earthquake, after only four days in Japan, so I decided to change the subject.

Before my personal experiences, here some dry facts:

Earthquake information (information on seismic intensity) Issued at 18:57 JST 17 Jan 2014

Occurred at (JST) 18:53 JST 17 Jan 2014
Latitude (degree) 35.6N
Longitude (degree) 140.1E
Depth 80km
Magnitude 4.3

Apparently there occur 3 to 4 earthquakes per day (!) in Japan. This means that there are over 1000 earthquakes per year in this country. Most of them do not cause any damage and are hardly or not at all noticed.
I checked the website of the Japanese Meteorological Agency and since my arrival there have been 20 (!) earthquakes already. (If I'd only known :-) ) Mostly in the northern part of the country so they weren't noticable in Tokyo. People here seem so used to it, it's not even discussed or let alone, mentioned in the news. There has been an earthquake with a 5.0 Magnitude, 2 days ago and I would have never known if I wouldn't have done some real research on the web today. I can assure you that a 5.0 earthquake in Belgium would be all over the news! For days...