On: 8.9 earthquake hits Japan

[atgm]

I'm feeling shakes every 20 minutes or so; one of the earthquake alerts on my phone actually preceded the shaking by about 10 seconds. My body's so used to the shaking that it always thinks it's shaking -- I set up a bottle of water to look at just so I don't go insane.

11:30 pm JST and I'm still feeling quakes.

[Confusion → atgm]

To verify your sanity: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/qu...

Some of the later quakes were als closer to Tokyo compared to the big one.

[erickhill → Confusion]

The map view helps to visualize the intense chain reaction after shocks (some north of 6.0) that have been set off. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/1...

[atgm → atgm]

4:00 am JST, had a 30 second quake that bashed my head on the wall and woke me up.

Edit: I'm from seismically-inactive Pennsylvania and completely not used to this, even after four years. It took me a while to fall asleep the first time since I kept feeling like I was shaking and would jerk awake. Now I don't know if I should try to fall asleep again or what.