Ali, please move this to General.
I think you meant to post this as a reply to a blog, or something, I'm not sure... but I can only assume that you are talking in reference to the quakes in Japan.
I too hope everyone is ok, Japan has been hit by a wave of natural disasters in recent weeks. Let's all hope things calm down a little.
For those not following the news, here is an excerpt from one of my newsletters I'm subscribed to:
What a year Japan is having! Right after last week's typhoon killed 78 people,
Japan has been racked by several strong earthquakes centered in Niigata, 300 km
north of Tokyo. The epicenter of the quakes were around 150 km from here, but
they shook us up here quite a bit (I was in the middle of getting my hair cut
when the first one hit). There was no damage here, save frayed nerves and fallen
objects that needed to be picked up, but the constant string of aftershocks
every hour or so (including a big one that woke us up this morning) has kept us
all on edge. The quakes have killed 25 people so far, and displaced tens of
thousands -- outside my window I can hear military helicopters ferrying food and
water to Niigata, because many of the roads are inaccessible. The quakes managed
to derail a Shinkansen, the first time this has ever happened ever since the
bullet trains began operation in 1964. The three big quakes measured 6.8 on the
Richter scale; the quake that killed 6400 in Kobe in 1995 was a 7.2.
Everyone take care on their travels, and keep your loved ones as informed as possible.
Savage
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