Hello, friends!
There was an earthquake this morning in Nigata.
It always remind me of the Great Hanshin Earthquake twelve years ago.
Just at that moment, I was in bed at my parents' home in Osaka.
Suddenly a floor was shaking up and down heavily, and it continued for a long time!
I couldn't do anything but covered the head with my futon in darkness.
I heard what sounded like glass being broken.( It was a cupboard.)
Fortunately, my house was all right but household goods were pretty broken.
Osaka had little damage by the earthquake, and Kobe was affected a severe damage.
I fear the Great Tokai Earthquake in the near future.
Providing is preventing. We should prepare for an emergency kit.
A long holiday is over. Did you enjoy, friends?
So, see you, good bye!
3 comments:
Dear Cherry and friends
Hello. How are you?
In my previous comment, I promised to tell you why I deleted another comment. I used the html tag, <a> , and I got a terrible result.
There is a note below the frame we edit our comments. It says that we can use some html tags such as <i>, <b> ,and <a>. I sometimes use <i> to make words italic. To do this, I put words between <i>, and </i>, For example, if I put <i> uminohi </i>, it should become uminohi.
I tried to set a link to a certain website. Usually, <a> tag is an html tag for t his purpose. However, it didn't work. The tag changed not only the url (web address) but also the rest of the contents. So one third of my comment became bold, underlined, and blue. That was terrible.
That's the end of my story about a small experiment.
School was open today although it was a national holiday. I had a class this morning. I met a student in the same seminar on my way home. We talked for a while. He attended a class to take notes of a lecture. It's his part time job. The job is called “notetaker.” Notetakers are arranged for students who can't hear. He said there are two such students now. There seem to be several notetakers.
Talk to you soon.
July 17, 2007 0:37 JST
Hello, Cherry and my friends.
When a severe earthquake hit the part of Niigata areas on Monday morning, I was just standing on a riverside at the Taisho-ike in Kami-kochi in Nagano Prefecture. Someone cried out, “It’s a quake.” I felt a moderate shaking under my feet. The ground swayed from side to side. It lasted a few seconds. I was so scared. It was first to feel the ground swing. Fear suddenly came over me-- what happened if the shaking kept on going. But nothing had happened after that for me but I was shocked to know that the temblor wreaked havoc in Kashiwazaki and Kariwa, Niigata Prefecture.
It’s intriguing that there are two ways of measuring the intensity of an earthquake: One way is the quake has an intensity of 6 plus on the Japanese seismic scale of seven. A quake registered upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of seven.
The other one is an earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 on the Richter scale rocked Niigata and Nagano prefecture. Or the quake had a magnitude of 6.8.
The powerful tremor wreaked havoc on a wide portion of Niigata prefecture. Utilities were cut off, transportation was disrupted, numerous telephone landline circuit were knocked out and power outages resulted in blackouts. Many people were being evacuated from their homes, forced into suffering from inconvenience.
The great Hanshin Earthquake was also strong, causing numerous damages. I remembered that my parents were evacuated to my brother’s home almost as long as a month, because gas, water and electricity supplies were suspended. The parent’s house was damaged so it needed to be renovated. Moreover, just after the quake, he had to take care of his wife’s parents at his house. It might be too much burden for him. I now appreciate all his efforts he had made for them.
My parents-in-law also lived in Kobe. Soon after the tremor, my husband said to his mother, “Ill come back to see you whether you're healthy.” But his mother told her son bravely, “We’re all right, so don't worry about us. We have enough stock of food to survive for at least a month. We would be rather anxious about you due to disrupted public transportation.” However, stresses and inner turmoil caused by the quake had made her sick. She suffered from “herpes zoster" about her hip. I’m afraid it might shorten her life.
The seismic made me write this tedious article.
Thank you for reading.
sunflower
Sunflower,
It's not tedious at all. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences.
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