[AmericanInTokyo]

Incredible experience. Good job, Japanese earthquake predictive technology and national TV networks.

Knowing it is coming perhaps makes the feelings more intense, with the sentiment of anticipation setting in.

[Tennessee Nana]

Hope you and yours are OK AIT..

[AnAmericanMother]

At least you had time to put the Limoge down . . . < g >

Glad you're o.k.

[EDINVA]

do you know where in NW Japan? My daughter lived for 2 years in Tajima in Fukushima Prefecture, and has several friends who are still there.

[BurbankKarl]

They have been testing this system in California... basically because the sensors can alert a network faster than the waves move through the earth.... I am glad to see it work in Japan......In CA it will probably never work, due to different entities involved.

[TheWasteLand]

Wow. Stay frosty for any aftershocks.

[darkwing104]

From my three years in Japan I was amazed how they had act together when it came to earthquake...

Hope everything is alright...

[steve86]

6.9

[Crazieman]

6.9 prelim magnitude

[BossLady]

WOW!!!! Glad you are ok!!!!

[grey_whiskers]

Prayers up for ya dude, and thanks for the update!!

[stefanbatory]

USGS website indicates it was a 6.9..

[dragnet2]

Now reporting 6.9

[ContraryMary]

Hope you and yours are all okay.

[Ezekiel]

Felt it here, about 30 mi SW of Tokyo. Didn’t pay it much mind - figured it was one of the usual 5.0 +/- just off the coast. Yikes.

[bd476]

Earthquake Ping List. If you would like to have your name
added to this list or removed from it, please FReepmail me.

[dragnet2]

TV broke with news on all channels IN ADVANCE OF EARTHQUAKE, warning people to "get ready".

How much advance?

[Global2010]

2 min predicted prior to Japan just happened now.....

EARTHQUAKE PING!

[dragnet2]

It literally gave us 2 minutes to prepare.

Got it.

[fanfan]

They predicted the quake?

Just Wow!

[shineon]

Prayers going up for Japan and all those effected by the earthquake in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

[MindBender26]

Watch out for a second one.

Be well.

[xzins]

Wow!

Did the warning and the instant posting on FR scoop the American media?

I wouldn’t be surprised.

[steveo]

UNR helicorder:

[bd476]

AmericanInTokyo, thank you for your first person report. Please be sure to visit the USGS site and log your reactions, what you felt, your estimated time for the shaking, anything moved, etc.

51 miles SW of Morioka, Honshu, Japan
JUN 13 2008 23:43:46 GMT

Did you feel it? Report it here

[Fundamentally Fair]

It literally gave us 2 minutes to prepare. I have never experienced an advance earthquake warning.

It's jsut a trick with time zones. ;)

[bd476]

Prayers extended for all in this earthquake.

[sionnsar]

Even without prediction a lot could be done. The “Ash Wednesday” earthquake here probably took a minute or more to reach us. With a net of sensors and some means to immediately notify the populace around the region, lives could be saved.

[Man50D]

Glad you’re OK AIT! How to scoop the media!

[SandRat]

Godzilla on a Pogo Stick?

[LibertyRocks]

Glad you are OK. Prayers for anyone who may be needing them at this time...

Pretty amazing that you all had advance warning - even if it was just 2 minutes!

[Bikkuri]

I felt it.. it woke me up X(
I just rolled over and waited for it to stop :p

[BunnySlippers]

Amazing! Hope you are well ...

[Cindy]

7.0

[Kevmo]

Very Cool. A 2 minute warning that saves your life. Better than a closely contested football game.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT Cool.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[Horusra]

for later reading

[NonValueAdded]

Fantastic real-time reporting, AIT. Glad to hear you are safe and there is a government that actually knows what it is doing. Thank you for using FR as the vehicle for your reporting.

[Tax-chick]

Pleased to know that you and some of our other Japan-dwelling FReepers are well. Prayers up for all those affected in Japan.

[jveritas]

I hope that everything is OK there. I will be traveling to Japan next weekend and stay there for few days on a business trip.

[Quix]

THANKS TONS.

PRAYERS AND HUGS.

An interesting poster on

HTTP://WWW.ABOVETOPSECRET.COM

posted an assertion a week or two ago that one of his friends who he claims has

100% accuracy

has predicted a 9.5 quake off the coast of China for the middle of June plus or minus a couple of weeks—so any time in June.

We shall see. Also predicted with it was a 50 meter Tsunami wave going far inland. Might be a good time to stay at upper elevations.

All the more so if this quake somehow reverberates, cocks things up a bit more.

Please be safe, buddy.

[bd476]

Population Density



Area Faults

[NonValueAdded]

I’m glad to see you were “promoted” to breaking and live thread status.

[NonValueAdded]

AP now reporting 2 deaths and one serious injury:

TOKYO - Japan's government says two people have died and eight others have been injured in an earthquake in the northern part of the country.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said at least two died in Saturday's 7-magnitude quake, including one person who ran out of a building in panic and was hit by a truck.

He says one of the eight injured was in serious condition.

here

[EternalVigilance]

Glad you’re not sitting in a pile of rubble.

‘Course, you’d probably be FReepin’anyhow!

:-)

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Magnitude?

[BlazingArizona]

What kind of place were you in when the quake struck? Did its roaches (every building and house in the country has them) swarm just before it started?

I had this happen once while at work (by myself, on a weekend) In the Mori #17 Building in Tokyo.

[beezdotcom]

Here's praying that loss of life is minimized - undoubtedly helped by the advance warning.

Here's also hoping that people don't start writing "tremblor" again instead of "temblor", but that's a minor issue...

[skinkinthegrass]

..glad to hear your safe.

[rlmorel]

Amazing! Two minutes warning could be invaluable! Prayers up...