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<\/p>\nAs most of the world knows, Japan was hit with an 8.9M earthquake yesterday afternoon. I was at work, in a meeting, and we all looked at each other wondering if what we each individually thought we were feeling was actually what we were feeling. Nagoya is a long way away from Fukushima, so instead of the sharp thumping kind of motion, we felt like we were on a waterbed. Everything just felt kind of squishy.<\/p>\n
I am fine. My apartment is fine. My workplace is fine. Nagoya appears to be fine as well. As a matter of fact, everything here appeared to be business as usual today. It was basically business as usual last night. The only thing I worried about yesterday was any impacts due to a tsunami. My workplace is, well, WATERFRONT, so there was reason to be worried. The warning for my area was for a smaller tsunami and it is situated so far up a protected bay that I felt the danger was low. But what do I know. I left work as soon as the first train was available, and walked from Nagoya Station to home. I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in the mood for a subway.<\/p>\n
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I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still worried about my friends and former colleagues in Ibaraki-ken. It was hit very hard, and there have been a cluster of smaller earthquakes in Ibaraki. I saw the picture above from AFP \/ Getty Images, which is a bridge over a river in Hitachinaka<\/a>. You can see the surge of water flowing upstream.<\/p>\n A wide view of the bridge from Google Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A closer view,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And the relationship to downtown Mito.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This was particularly close to home for me, because I thought that perhaps I had crossed that bridge before when I lived in Mito<\/a>. On further review, I probably didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go over this bridge often, but it certainly made it hit closer to my past experiences. It was still very close to Mito<\/a>, and I drove alongside the Naka river every day for miles going to work.<\/p>\n As most of the world knows, Japan was hit with an 8.9M earthquake yesterday afternoon. I was at work, in a meeting, and we all looked at each other wondering if what we each individually thought we were feeling was actually what we were feeling. Nagoya is a long way away from Fukushima, so instead … <\/p>\n![\"Surge](\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/hitachinaka2.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![\"Naka](\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/hitachinaka3.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![\"Naka](\"http:\/\/www.triplefstudio.com\/yokoso\/images\/mito.jpg\")
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As a by product of this earthquake and tsunami, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten a lot of hits to my website through search engines. If you read this, please consider making a contribution a charity that will provide relief to the people so severely impacted by this event. I have provided a link to the American Red Cross<\/a>. Certainly if another charity is more appropriate, do not hesitate to donate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"