El Viajero

Boy, that was the biggest ride I have had since I have lived in Japan! I was working on the confluence post today when the hairs on the back of my neck stood straight up. A half a second later, the whole place started shaking. I don’t know the “magnitude” (a formula based on the Richter scale) for our area because most of the reports use the closed Japanese scale (1 to 7). We registered a four on the Japanese scale. From my experience growing up in Southern California, I would have to say that we were in the mid-4′s on the Richter scale today. I haven’t felt any aftershocks today, but the Fukuoka area seems to be getting one or two an hour. Let’s hope the big ones are all done.