These were pretty bad. At my place of business in Tokyo the shocks were pretty scary. There are a lot o reports of damage. Trains are stopped. There was another after-shock just a couple of minutes ago.
Not like I stare at webicorders a lot but I was up because of some indigestion and happened to just check on some of the graphs near Mt. St. Helens.....saw the trace, then looked at some other webicorders around the US and saw the same thing....knew there had been a big one somewhere in the world, fairly distant from the US, but didn't know where.....sort of weird waiting to find out where it was for a good 10 minutes.
There was a much larger quake near Niigata in 1964, but it was offshore. It produced a lot of liquefaction damage there (the famous pics of apartment buildings lying on their sides.)
I have a feeling this was really terrible around there but the news reports really haven't filtered through.
Wow this is happening right now for you?
Stay safe. Prayer Bump.
WHat kind of damage?
Our buildings earthquake code there?
Stay safe, R!