EARTHQUAKE!

Woah- that was totally freaky! I just experienced my first Tokyo earthquake!!! (it's about 5:30pm here at work) -- I was sitting at my desk, writing an email and at first I thought someone was jumping right behind me. It sort of felt like the floor was like jello, bouncy. Then things kinda shook a little (not enough to knock anything down). Everyone in the office was just kind of like "oh an earthquake". Then everyone said to me - welcome to Tokyo! There was a building announcement that said don't use the elevators but that thee building was safe.

I've never experienced anything like that. Apparantly it was fairly big, at least definitely noticable... it was a 4.8 (japanese scale) and was centered out in Tokyo bay somewhere, probably about a 3 in the city. Check out a map at this link (sorry can't seem to make it clickable):

http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/earthquake/?c=3

In a way that was cool but a little scary. We are on the 30th Floor here. People here seem really used to it though. I hope there's never bigger earthquake than that while I'm here!

On a totally separate note, tonight I am meeting up with Sophia (the girl that invited me out last week) for dinner at Nobu Tokyo. She has a friend who's last day in the city is today. Yummm....