Tokyo oh Tokyo!

Well I’m currently in Tokyo on business at the moment, Sarah is also with me. Well this morning we where woken unexpectedly at around 6:47am – I didn’t know what was going on, thought I was dreaming or something but nope sure enough I was encountering my first Earthquake! Yeah an Earthquake, a small one at that but still very scary stuff – see the link below taken from Bloomberg.com.

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Text from the site:

Tokyo Area Shaken by Magnitude 4.8 Earthquake; No Tsunami Alert June 20 (Bloomberg) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 jolted Tokyo and surrounding areas of eastern Japan at 6:47 this morning, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warning was issued.

The tremor was centered 80 kilometers (50 miles) underground in Chiba, east of Tokyo. It registered 3 on the Japanese agency’s seismic intensity scale, the agency reported on its Web site.