Japan Quake

[salemboy]

Hey, guys, this is salemboy from Japan. Just posting to let you guys know that I'm A-OK. Didn't even feel anything where I live. Right now, I'm working on assisting the relief effort, if that's a sign of how little the quake affected us.

So, yeah, just letting you know so that nobody gets worried. After all, who else is going to adapt our RP's into novels and submit them to JK Rowling?

[Scellanis]

Eeek, didn't realise we had anyone in Japan. Been watching all the news for that, must be so scary living in places that are on fault/near lines. Britain is so special, we hardly ever get anything.

[salemboy]

Eh, we didn't even feel anything where I live. We have a 5.0 quake once in a while, but that's it. There's never much panic about natural disasters. Japan is one of the most well-prepared countries in the world, so it has to take a quake of massive proportions to hurt it, like the one that hit Sendai.

[Scellanis]

We didn't hear the last one to hit my area of Scotland, it'd be a tiddly wee one under 2.0 probably but we heard it, a roar that sailed past the house. Sounded just like a dragon flew past and later we found out there had been a small earthdquake. We think thats why medieval people thought dragons existed, it was their way of explaining earthquakes and volcanoes and tornados etc.

[salemboy]

Well, you wouldn't have felt or heard it if it were only a 2. They happen all the time, everywhere.

[Scellanis]

nah you do, thats about the largest we get in britain, the news reports them every time we get one, people do feel them. Just had a 2. something one in Blackpool I think.

[salemboy]

Maybe it's because we live in Japan nobody cares. Over here, nobody notices little 2's, because we happen to be on a very quake-prone fault-line. For Japan to experience a 2 is like London experiencing cloudy weather.

[Scellanis]

yeah definately whereas here we get a 2 and people phone the police to complain that their house is shaking. Presumably thats because they don't realise its an earthquake and think its something the police can actually sort out.