This is going to be one hell of a year. I can see it already.
Fuck. Not again.
Felt it in Tokyo. Very strange experience!
2024’s gonna take down the house, I see.
Any live cams on these coasts?
What a horrible way to start the year 🙁 I hope for minimal damage
This brings back memories boxing day tsunami of 2004 that hit my town I grew up in, scary stuff on a day after celebrations. Stay strong Japan !
Jfc, the first day of the year…
I couldn’t imagine how scary
Felt strong where I am in hakuba ski area. Telephone poles were shaking, and phones and sirens lit up with alerts. Been a few minor aftershocks also. Hopefully it’s done.
Traveling here for the first time and it was very surreal to be in a tall building swaying back and forth.
I live in Nagoya, Aichi-ken Prefecture, south of ishikawa (literally the other side of the mainland).
Girlfriend and I went to lay down in our bed and suddenly our phones started to blow up at maximum volume with a notification sound we never heard before, saying “EARTHQUAKE! EARTHQUAKE! EARTHQUAKE!” (phone language is in English) and about 2 seconds later the swaying/shaking started. We couldn’t tell how long it took, however we hid under the table and we felt pretty nauseated afterwards.
In fact, we still are nauseated.
Thankfully there are many resources to find information about such disasters. It seems we are safe now, however, small earthquakes are still happening in the ishikawa region. You can check it here:
2024 not going to let 2023 keep the crown for long.
I was at the shrine in a small city outside of Nagoya, suddenly phone alerts went off and then the shaking starte. At first I didn’t know what was going on bu the shaking became stronger and they moved people away from structures. I think it was a minute of shaking, we were only shindo 4 and it was a shindo 7 in Ishikawa.
After we finished at the shrine we went home and turned on NHK, been several aftershock in Ishikawa. The alerts keep popping up on TV, but I haven’t felt any after shocks where I am.
Imagine celebrating new years, drinking, having fun, and then a 7.4 earthquake results in 16 foot tall waves crashing down on ur coastline
(fyi the largest earthquake on record was 9.5 May 1960 off the coast of Chile 🇨🇱)
I’m based in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, but currently staying in Tokyo. Some of my teachers have had to evacuate, trains have stopped (I can’t get home) and the electricity has been shut down. Most of the houses in the area are built to withstand this kind of earthquake though, and in Kanazawa people haven’t been told to evacuate yet.
Here in Japan right now for the holidays. Very eerie time.
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Not even a day in and something comes off my 2024 Bingo card
7.6: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20240101162429&lang=en
NHK is literally saying “Run away now!”
Crazy stuff
EDIT: [Live English translation](https://www.youtube.com/live/f0lYkdA-Gtw?si=bsu9A9hp8bdI1uUO)
This is going to be one hell of a year. I can see it already.
Fuck. Not again.
Felt it in Tokyo. Very strange experience!
2024’s gonna take down the house, I see.
Any live cams on these coasts?
What a horrible way to start the year 🙁 I hope for minimal damage
This brings back memories boxing day tsunami of 2004 that hit my town I grew up in, scary stuff on a day after celebrations. Stay strong Japan !
Jfc, the first day of the year…
I couldn’t imagine how scary
Felt strong where I am in hakuba ski area. Telephone poles were shaking, and phones and sirens lit up with alerts. Been a few minor aftershocks also. Hopefully it’s done.
Traveling here for the first time and it was very surreal to be in a tall building swaying back and forth.
[NHK World](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lYkdA-Gtw). The entire west coast is under tsunami advisory.
Way to ring in the new year…
I live in Nagoya, Aichi-ken Prefecture, south of ishikawa (literally the other side of the mainland).
Girlfriend and I went to lay down in our bed and suddenly our phones started to blow up at maximum volume with a notification sound we never heard before, saying “EARTHQUAKE! EARTHQUAKE! EARTHQUAKE!” (phone language is in English) and about 2 seconds later the swaying/shaking started. We couldn’t tell how long it took, however we hid under the table and we felt pretty nauseated afterwards.
In fact, we still are nauseated.
Thankfully there are many resources to find information about such disasters. It seems we are safe now, however, small earthquakes are still happening in the ishikawa region. You can check it here:
https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/index.html?lang=en
Stay safe everyone. 🙁
Edit: We went to lay down in our bed, not to sleep though. My bad for not making it clear.
Stay strong, Japanbros
So worried about family right now. I hope everyone gets to evacuate safely with little to no damage! Thinking of Japan during this time.
Japan has the most sophisticated early warning system for Tsunami and earthquakes, hopefully people heed those warnings.
Big fire now in Wajima.
Japanese here, this is very much reminiscent of the 2011 earthquake. Frankly terrifying.
Edit; am in Tokyo so I’m safe. FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN ISHIKAWA BUT CANNOT SPEAK JAPANESE, go here for updated news.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
2024 not going to let 2023 keep the crown for long.
I was at the shrine in a small city outside of Nagoya, suddenly phone alerts went off and then the shaking starte. At first I didn’t know what was going on bu the shaking became stronger and they moved people away from structures. I think it was a minute of shaking, we were only shindo 4 and it was a shindo 7 in Ishikawa.
After we finished at the shrine we went home and turned on NHK, been several aftershock in Ishikawa. The alerts keep popping up on TV, but I haven’t felt any after shocks where I am.
Tsunami confirmations, looks like Ishikawa got hit the hardest with waves as high as 5 meters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lYkdA-Gtw
Imagine celebrating new years, drinking, having fun, and then a 7.4 earthquake results in 16 foot tall waves crashing down on ur coastline
(fyi the largest earthquake on record was 9.5 May 1960 off the coast of Chile 🇨🇱)
I’m based in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, but currently staying in Tokyo. Some of my teachers have had to evacuate, trains have stopped (I can’t get home) and the electricity has been shut down. Most of the houses in the area are built to withstand this kind of earthquake though, and in Kanazawa people haven’t been told to evacuate yet.
Here in Japan right now for the holidays. Very eerie time.
Has it hit the coastline yet?